India, Nov. 18 -- Several websites and internet applications, including X, OpenAI's ChatGPT and Cloudfare, was down for thousands of users globally amid a massive outage.

X, the microblogging platform owned by Elon Musk, suffered a global disruption, leaving thousands of users, including those in India, unable to load posts and feed. Apart from X, several major websites, including ChatGPT, Letterboxd, Perplexity, Canva and Uber were those affected. The massive outage is believed to have originated from Cloudflare, which also impacted several other services.

Here are the latest updates on the massive technical outage:

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