A major Cloudflare outage on Tuesday caused widespread disruptions across the internet, knocking several global websites offline and leaving millions of users unable to access popular platforms.
The outage, which began late Tuesday morning, affected major international services including OpenAI, X (formerly Twitter), Canva, Spotify, and other high-traffic platforms. Users flooded monitoring sites with reports of errors, slow loading, and total outages.
In Nigeria and other parts of the world, news platforms were especially hit. Sites such as Okay News, Premium Times, PUNCH, The Nation, TheCable, Nairametrics, and several others displayed Cloudflare-related server errors — leaving readers unable to load pages or access breaking news.
OkayNews also experienced a full shutdown during the global glitch. Its homepage and all internal pages failed to load, instead showing Cloudflare’s “internal server error” notice. The disruption lasted almost two hours, frustrating readers and briefly halting the platform’s traffic flow.
Cloudflare later confirmed the incident on its status page, describing it as an “internal service degradation”. The company said its technical teams were working urgently to restore stability across affected services.
“We are seeing services recover, but customers may continue to observe higher-than-normal error rates,”
Cloudflare said in an update shared shortly after partial restoration began.
By early afternoon, some major sites — including X — had begun to return online, but many news platforms continued to experience intermittent failures. As of mid-day, several Nigerian websites were still struggling to fully recover.
Cloudflare says it is continuing its remediation efforts as affected platforms work to resume normal operations.
