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Cloudflare Outage Disrupts X, ChatGPT and Thousands of Sites

Cloudflare's internal service degradation caused widespread 500 errors affecting one-fifth of global websites, with over 10,000 reports on DownDetector, disrupting major platforms like X and ChatGPT.

  • 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 bug takes chunk of web offline

Major websites including social network X and AI chatbot ChatGPT were disrupted on Tuesday after US online services provider Cloudflare said it had been affected by a "latent bug".

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