 "Elon Musk's X goes down as thousands report US outages, other services hit")
Elon Musk-owned social media platform X experienced a major outage in the US on Tuesday, affecting thousands of users, according to tracking site Downdetector.com.
By 6:51 am ET, the outage-tracking website had logged more than 5,600 reports of problems with the platform. Downdetector compiles such updates from a variety of user sources.
Cloudflare, OpenAI also report technical issues
Cloudflare, a major web infrastructure provider, was also experiencing technical difficulties that affected other online services. It was not immediately clear whether Cloudflare’s problems were connected to the disruption on X.
At around 6:40 am ET, Cloudflare posted on its status page that it was investigating the issue. The company’s shares dropped 4.1 per cent in premarket trade.
"We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly," it said.
Similarly, OpenAI’s ChatGPT saw 294 outage reports from users, according to the outage-tracking website.
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