Is X down? Cloudflare outage impacts ChatGPT, Spotify, more websites

[groundloop]

Source: USA Today

Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure platform, is experiencing an outage that appears to be affecting websites across the internet, including the social media platform X.

The company said in a status update before 7 a.m. EST on Nov. 18 that it was aware of "an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers,” and was investigating the problem.

In a statement to USA TODAY around 8:30 a.m. EST, Cloudflare said it "saw a spike in unusual traffic" to one of its services around 6:20 a.m. EST.

"That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare's network to experience errors. We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic. We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic," the statement said.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/11/18/cloudflare-outage-twitter-x-down-websites/87333063007/

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This is affecting X, Spotify, OpenAI, League of Legends, and many others.

[EarlG]

1. This is affecting DU today also

I'm currently able to access the site on my PC right now, but not my phone, and I suspect quite a few people are having trouble getting onto DU at the moment. Hopefully Cloudflare will deal with this soon

[FarPoint]

2. I too got such a message when trying to get on DU...

It's all good for now.... It's nice to validate such an experience with others...

[CTyankee]

12. I was so depressed when I saw that cloudfare message! I thought maybe Trump had something to do with it.

[ananda]

16. I thought the same thing.

Are the Magats fucking with our site?

But then I realized it affected other sites
they wouldn't mess with.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

17. I experienced a slow loading when first getting in to DU...

... thought it peculiar. My Ryzen 7 5800XT zooms as long as the data is accessible. Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk

[yardwork]

21. I'm back on DU on my phone.

I googled Cloudflare when I got the error messages and learned about the outage.

[NBachers]

3. Couldn't get on with multiple apps; finally was able to access through AOL. Checked in on DU's Facebook, but nothing

there. For some reason, I can't post on DU's Facebook page. If someone can, maybe they should so if others check in there, they'll know DU is OK, it's Cloudflare.

I tried accessing through PC, iPhone, and iPad.

[Upthevibe]

4. groundloop ............

I wasn't initially able to get on here to DU for just about a minute or two.

I've been unable to access my Spotify since yesterday afternoon. I still can't.

[RobertDevereaux]

5. Back on, in Colorado...

At 7:30 am MST.

[Escape]

6. I have been blocked from DU all morning..

I'd never heard of Cloudflare

[Bengus81]

7. Quick Eloon...blame it on Liberal commie Marxist Democrats

[Jokerman]

8. Cloudflare System Status

Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.
Nov 18, 2025 - 14:42 UTC

[ChicagoTeamster]

9. It also affects indeed job site

[Mysterian]

10. Damifino

I don't use any of that silly crap.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. saw that error message here and i go oh no! not again.in reference to the 2916 great du hack.

in trump 1.0 , when he was installed the first time , du went down and off line for 6 days . eghad . du with darawls om goodness.

[PatSeg]

15. That one was quite bizarre

Looked like it was Russia or some east European country. The graphics that showed up were really strange.

[yardwork]

22. The video the hackers played was interesting.

Definitely Eastern European imagery. It used to be up on YouTube. Anybody who doesn't think Putin messed with the 2016 election should watch that video that was played on DU after it was hacked on election night.

[PatSeg]

24. I agree

It had Putin & Co. all over it.

[lark]

13. I couldn't get on here from 8:30 until 10:03.

Glad this got resolved!!

[boonecreek]

14. Stephanie Miller's website is also down.

But you can hear her here.
https://heartlandsignal.com/

[surfered]

18. Maybe this

[IronLionZion]

19. This is what happens when cattle jump over the border wall

bringing viruses into our computers. Nobody is vaccinated for Cloudflare.

[malthaussen]

20. Affected DU for awhile. Still going on: Mod The Sims is down.

We live in interesting times.

-- Mal

[SorellaLaBefana]

23. Took car in for service yesterday. Their WWW was down and so they could do NADA until it was restored ?!

Needed to rent a car whilst ours in for several days of work. Used to be, there were a couple of PRINTED forms to fill out, and one was good to go.

This is NO LONGER true.

In this case it was the specific car dealership, and not any more widespread outage. Had it been more widespread, would have had to giveup and ride-hail home.

When I figured out this was the case, chatting with the (not at all busy, having nothing to do) checkout clerk (and showing her the screenshots which showed this to be a Very Localized issue) she finally said, well, we had a power outage last night, and that some computer equipment *might* have been damaged,; but, that 'the Tech guys were all over it...'

I did not point out that, if their 'Tech guys' had been any good at all, then there would not have been any problems as the system would have been (like all of mine at home) on UPSs which will run for 20minutes to two hours, and then (on my main system) do an orderly shutdown.

Took them about 1+15 to get their system up and running. This put them behind for the rest of the day—since they needed internet to access the national system where the dealership records are stored before being able to work on any cars .

So, although had brought the car in just as the dealership opened at 0700, they did not get started on our car until about 1300. Which, in the end, may result in my needed to rent-a-car for a day longer than the two-three days planned for.

All good though, simply more money in the bank for the dealership. The house always wins.