On Tuesday, November 18 2025, the social media platform X experienced a significant outage affecting thousands of users across multiple regions. What Happened Users of X began reporting issues early in the morning (U.S. East Coast time), with disconnected feeds, failed posts, and error messages instead of the usual content. According to outage tracker Downdetector, over 5,600 problem reports had been logged by around 6:51 a.m. ET. Why It Happened The outage coincides with a major failure at Cloudflare, a key internet infrastructure provider whose services support X and many other platforms. Cloudflare reported that it identified an issue impacting multiple customers (“internal service degradation”), and that its network was handling a spike in unusual traffic. Because X routes significant traffic and employs Cloudflare’s services for performance and security, the disruption at Cloudflare translated directly into problems at X. Impact on User...
If your VPN, online tools like Magic Eraser, and X (formerly Twitter) all started glitching or refusing to load today, you’re not alone. On 18 November 2025, a major Cloudflare outage disrupted huge parts of the internet, affecting services like ChatGPT, X, League of Legends, Downdetector and many more. Because so many apps and websites rely on Cloudflare’s network for security, DNS and content delivery, when Cloudflare has a problem, it feels like “the whole internet is broken.” ⸻ What Exactly Happened Today? According to multiple reports and Cloudflare’s own status updates: • Around late morning UTC on 18 Nov 2025, Cloudflare started seeing a spike in unusual traffic. • This triggered internal service degradation and 500-type error messages (“internal server error”) across many of its services. • Big platforms including X, ChatGPT, League of Legends and even Downdetector were affected, with users suddenly unable to load pages or log in. • Cl...