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Fla Dem

(27,311 posts) Tue Nov 18, 2025, 09:43 AM 5 hrs ago

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Cloudflare down: Company blames ‘unusual’ spike in traffic before outage errors
Published Tue, Nov 18 20258:41 AM ESTUpdated 4 Min Ago

Key Points
-Cloudflare was hit by an outage that knocked several major websites and services offline for global users.

-OpenAI’s ChatGPT, e-commerce platform Shopify and Elon Musk’s social media platform X appear to have been affected by the Cloudflare issues.

- A Cloudflare spokesperson said the company observed a “spike in unusual traffic” to one of its services before the errors.

More at link
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/cloudflare-down-outage-traffic-spike-x-chatgpt.html

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Cloudflare Down (Original Post) Fla Dem 5 hrs ago OP

X down for thousands amid Cloudfare outage LetMyPeopleVote 4 hrs ago #1

DU's been unavailable for me about 1-1/2 hours bucolic_frolic 4 hrs ago #2

Glad they got the problem sorted out. Paladin 4 hrs ago #3

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,793 posts)

1. X down for thousands amid Cloudfare outage

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Tue Nov 18, 2025, 09:45 AM

4 hrs ago

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https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5610426-cloudfare-outage-x-down/?utm_social_handle_id=1917731&utm_social_post_id=576950393

The social platform X was down for thousands of users Tuesday morning, as web infrastructure provider Cloudfare experienced issues.

More than 10,000 users reported problems with the site starting at around 6:30 a.m. EST, according to Downdetector, which briefly went down itself.

As of 8:30 a.m., X displayed a notice of an “internal service error” and pointed users to Cloudfare for more information. Cloudfare noted shortly before 7 a.m. that it was “experiencing an internal service degradation.”

The company said just after 8 a.m. that the issue “has been identified and a fix is being implemented.”

Several other sites also appeared to be impacted by the Cloudfare outage, with OpenAI and Canva showing a spike in reported issues on Downdetector and similarly indicating a problem with Cloudfare.