India, Nov. 18 -- Cloudflare, a provider of cloud-based internet security and services, announced that an outage which affected online operations for several well-known websites and applications, including X, Donald Trump's Truth Social and the AI chatbot ChatGPT, on Tuesday morning has been rectified.

A solution has been put in place, the firm stated in an update at approximately 9:45 a.m. ET, adding that they are confident that the issue is now resolved. Cloudflare further mentioned that they are actively monitoring for any errors to guarantee that all services have returned to normal.

"We detected a surge in atypical traffic directed to one of Cloudflare's services starting at 11:20 UTC. This resulted in some traffic traversing Cloud...