The Digest:
A major Cloudflare outage disrupted access to major global platforms, including X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI, Spotify, and leading Nigerian news websites, displaying internal server errors across services in a widespread internet infrastructure failure.
Key Points:
- Websites including X, OpenAI, Canva, and Spotify experienced global access issues.
- Leading Nigerian news platforms like Premium Times and PUNCH were also affected.
- Cloudflare acknowledged "internal service degradation" causing intermittent service impacts.
- The company reported a gradual recovery but warned of continued higher error rates.
- Services began restoring after 33 minutes, though some Nigerian sites remained affected.
- Error messages indicated internal server problems within Cloudflare's network.
- The outage highlighted global dependency on centralized internet infrastructure providers.
Sources: Tech Cabal, X
