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ChatGPT Outage Hits Thousands: Service Restored After 32 Minutes

1/23/2025

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ChatGPT faced a significant outage on Thursday morning, impacting thousands of users worldwide.
The disruption lasted around 32 minutes, with users receiving "bad gateway" errors.
OpenAI acknowledged the issue and restored service by 7:43 a.m. ET.
More than 10,000 outage reports were recorded, reflecting the platform's importance to its 300 million weekly users.
Users voiced their frustration on social media, illustrating the outage's emotional toll.

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ChatGPT faced a significant outage on Thursday morning, impacting thousands of users worldwide.
The disruption lasted around 32 minutes, with users receiving "bad gateway" errors.
OpenAI acknowledged the issue and restored service by 7:43 a.m. ET.
More than 10,000 outage reports were recorded, reflecting the platform's importance to its 300 million weekly users.
Users voiced their frustration on social media, illustrating the outage's emotional toll.