ChatGPT hit by another outage in less than 24 hours

OpenAI’s popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT suffered an outage for a second day running on Wednesday. The service had been down for a couple of hours globally on Tuesday as well.

Several users took to microblogging platform Twitter to report the issue.

According to some users, ChatGPT is unable to respond to new queries. That said, the chatbot is still operational, according to OpenAI's system status.


Downdetector, a service used to track outages and issues with popular apps, also showed a spike in users reporting issues with ChatGPT.

The chatbot witnessed a major outage on Tuesday with more than 6,000 users reporting issues with the platform, according to Downdetector. On Wednesday, around 600 cases of outage were reported on the website around 2:30 PM India time.

The AI chatbot saw monthly traffic to its website and unique visitors decline for the first time ever in June, A Reuters report said, citing analytics firm Similarweb.

Worldwide desktop and mobile traffic to the ChatGPT website decreased by 9.7% in June from May, while unique visitors to ChatGPT's website dropped 5.7%. The amount of time visitors spent on the website was also down 8.5%, the report said.

ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly active users in January, two months after its launch, beating Instagram, TikTok and other social media platforms.

However, Meta's Twitter rival Threads passed 100 million users in just 5 days of its launch on July 6, becoming the fastest growing platform.