Goa, Nov. 18 -- Cloudflare, a company that usually works quietly behind the scenes to keep vast sections of the internet running smoothly, suddenly found itself in the spotlight on Tuesday after a major outage disrupted access to several of the world's most widely used platforms. The incident affected services such as X (formerly Twitter), Canva, ChatGPT, Perplexity and others, highlighting the critical yet often unseen role Cloudflare plays in ensuring the internet functions seamlessly.

Cloudflare outage

The disruption left thousands of X users in India and abroad unable to access the platform, with similar problems reported across multiple websites. While X has not released an official statement, Cloudflare confirmed it was dealing wi...