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Cloudflare outage cripples X, OpenAI for three hours

7/24/2026

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  • Cloudflare suffered a global outage on Tuesday, causing error messages on many sites.
  • The outage started at 11.48 am London time and was fixed by 2.48 pm.
  • Cloudflare said an automatically generated configuration file grew too large, crashing its traffic-management system.
  • During the incident Cloudflare disabled Warp in London, leading to failures and outages at X and OpenAI.
  • A Cloudflare spokesperson said there is no evidence the outage was caused by attack.