PANews reported on November 18th that ChatGPT and the social media platform "X" experienced inaccessibility for some users on Tuesday due to a network outage at cybersecurity company Cloudflare. Cloudflare stated on its website that it was investigating an issue "potentially affecting multiple customers." The page also indicated that Cloudflare's customer support portal had experienced outages, and the company had planned maintenance in some regions earlier that day. At one point, even Cloudflare's own outage status website was inaccessible. Hundreds of thousands of companies worldwide use Cloudflare's security software, and Cloudflare's systems have experienced numerous outages in the past.