US EditionCloudflare Outage Disrupts X, ChatGPT and Thousands of Sites
Cloudflare's internal service degradation caused widespread 500 errors affecting over 10,000 users and disrupting key platforms including X and ChatGPT worldwide.
- 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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