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A major Cloudflare outage caused global outages for X, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Canva, and more, sparking memes and frustration on X and Reddit.
Many users turned to other social media platforms to check if the service had been down.
Several platforms, including X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Canva, and others, experienced a global outage, bringing tasks to a grinding halt for users. The disruption, which lasted for a few hours, saw reports of service failures steadily increasing across several countries.
From 500 errors, failing dashboards, broken APIs, to login sessions timing out – the outage has reached almost every corner of the internet. Even Cloudflare’s control panel and API were failing.
According to DownDetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from several sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform, the outage began around this evening when an issue arose with Cloudflare’s support portal provider, and quickly spread to broader service issues.
In many cases, users trying to access these websites reported being blocked by a generic message, such as “Please unblock Challenges.cloudflare.com to continue,” which blocks access to the protected site.
Power outages spark social media frenzy
The power outage became a popular topic on social media as frustrated users found humor in their predicament. Memes and clever remarks flooded X and Reddit.
“X is down, Cloudflare is down, buckle up people, it’s over for the day,” one user said.
Another posted, “X has been down for a minute now. Even their host server on Cloudflare was down.”
Another wrote: “Looks like X is down due to Cloudflare issues. Downdetector can’t be accessed either.”
The outage also sparked a wave of humor and comments across Reddit.
One Redditor joked: “Twitter
Another confused user wrote: “Why is x(ex-twitter) down too!” While another person asked: “How is everyone enjoying Reddit while X is down?”
Cloudflare statement
Cloudflare confirmed the incident, explaining that it is examining a major outage affecting many of its customers.
In a brief statement, Cloudflare said: “We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this issue,” confirming that more details will be shared soon.
Shobhit Gupta is a sub-editor at News18.com and covers Indian and international news. He is interested in India’s day-to-day political affairs and geopolitics. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in journalism (with honors) from the University of Ben…Read more
Shobhit Gupta is a sub-editor at News18.com and covers Indian and international news. He is interested in India’s day-to-day political affairs and geopolitics. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in journalism (with honors) from the University of Ben… Read more
18 November 2025, 8:57 PM IST
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