Cloudflare suffered a technical fault on Tuesday that disrupted multiple websites and apps, including X, Truth Social and ChatGPT. Cloudflare's status page said engineers were investigating, then reported that services were recovering though higher-than-average error rates might continue. Approximately two hours after the outage began, the company confirmed the issue had been resolved, consistent with independent monitoring.
Major Cloudflare Outage Disrupts X, Truth Social and ChatGPT — Services Restored After Two Hours
Cloudflare suffered a technical fault on Tuesday that disrupted multiple websites and apps, including X, Truth Social and ChatGPT. Cloudflare's status page said engineers were investigating, then reported that services were recovering though higher-than-average error rates might continue. Approximately two hours after the outage began, the company confirmed the issue had been resolved, consistent with independent monitoring.
11:43 PM, 11/18/2025Technology
Cloudflare outage disrupts global websites and apps
On Tuesday, a technical fault at Cloudflare — a major US-based internet infrastructure and security provider — knocked numerous websites and apps offline, including social networks X and Truth Social, and temporarily affected OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Cloudflare provides global performance and security services designed to make websites and online applications faster, more secure and more stable. The company is particularly well known for its DDoS defence, which helps protect sites from being overwhelmed by sudden floods of requests.
Cloudflare's status page initially reported that engineers were aware of the incident and working on a fix. The page was later updated with the message:
"We are seeing a recovery in services, but customers may continue to experience higher-than-average error rates as we continue our remediation efforts."
About two hours after the outage began, Cloudflare reported the error had been resolved. Independent monitoring platforms and user reports showed services recovering on a similar timeline.
Impact and takeaway: The event underlines how centralised infrastructure providers can cause widespread disruption when faults occur and highlights the importance of redundancy, robust monitoring and contingency planning for high-traffic online services.