US EditionCloudflare Outage Disrupts X, ChatGPT and Thousands of Sites
- On Tuesday, November 18, 2025, Cloudflare confirmed at 11:48 UTC that its global network was experiencing issues impacting ChatGPT and the social-media platform X, causing widespread errors.
- A Cloudflare spokesperson said engineers observed a spike in unusual traffic around 6:20 a.m. ET, triggering an internal service degradation causing errors across Cloudflare Access and WARP, content-delivery network, and distributed DNS.
- Over 26 million websites rely on Cloudflare, and Downdetector recorded more than 10,000 user reports during the outage affecting sites including X, Spotify, OpenAI, and Canva.
- Cloudflare said on its status page that it deployed changes allowing Cloudflare Access and WARP to recover and re-enabled WARP access in London while some customers still see elevated error rates.
- Cloudflare's history of outages includes events earlier this year and long ago, illustrating recurring failures that cybersecurity experts have warned risk internet stability.
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Cloudflare is down, making dozens of websites around the world inaccessible, including X and ChatGPT, the company said, due to an unusually rapid surge in traffic.
Massive Cloudflare Failure Hits X, ChatGPT, Spotify And Others
A major Cloudflare outage on Tuesday morning disrupted access to several widely used platforms, including ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify and Elon Musk’s X. The failure came only a month after Musk mocked companies hit by an AWS outage, boasting that X had “no … AWS dependencies.” Ironically, X was knocked offline along with the rest. If you're seeing this, our tweets have made it through the Cloudflare outage.X, ChatGPT, Spotify, and even Morning Brew…
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ORF.at NewsDue to a technical malfunction with the service provider Cloudflare many Internet offers were not accessible. ChatGPT did not provide any more answers, also the platforms X and Truth Social were affected.
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