Cloudflare Outage Took X and ChatGPT Down – Causes and Lessons
On November 18, 2025, a significant portion of the internet ground to a halt. X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, Spotify, and countless other platforms became temporarily inaccessible. The culprit? Not a sophisticated cyberattack or malicious intent, but rather a configuration management failure at Cloudflare—the infrastructure company that acts as the internet’s invisible traffic controller for millions […]