A global outage on November 18th, 2025 is affecting many popular websites and services. These include 𝕏, OpenAI. The cause is a widespread technical issue at Cloudflare. The problem has been reported by users across social media, with error messages indicating issues with Cloudflare’s service.

What happened?

Cloudflare’s global network issue began around 6:00–6:30 AM ET, causing error 522 messages for users. The company’s status page was ironically unavailable during the incident, with investigations ongoing as of midday UTC.

Affected services: Platforms like X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI, and other websites are affected.

Continue to monitor the Cloudflare Status page for the latest updates on the outage and its resolution.

This event follows a pattern of infrastructure failures. AWS’s outage a month prior is an example. Such incidents highlight vulnerabilities in centralized internet services. These services power over 20% of global web traffic according to Cloudflare’s own data.