Cloudflare down live updates: Outage takes Claude, ChatGPT and thousands of other sites offline; ‘Could you unblock me?’

Updated: 09:57 EST, 18 November 2025

The internet is facing a global Cloudflare outage Tuesday morning, with major sites including ChatGPT, ClaudeAI and X struggling to load after a network issue. .

Cloudflare confirmed the disruption and is said to be investigating the issue.

In a statement, the company said : ‘We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services beginning at 11:20 UTC. 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.’

Frustrated users flooded X with complaints, including one who pleaded: ‘Could you unblock me from Discord please?’

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Chaos online as massive Cloudflare outage cripples half the internet

Cloudflare has experienced a massive outage that has knocked dozens of major websites offline.

The company provides web security, speed, and routing services for millions of sites, so when Cloudflare goes down, anything that relies on it cannot load, a failure that ripples across a huge portion of the internet.

Issues hit Cloudflare around 6:48am ET on Tuesday.

Downdetector, which tracks online outages, shows the Cloudflare glitch has affected X, Spotify, OpenAI, Uber, Grindr and many others.

Cloudflare releases statement on outage

Cloudflare released an official statement on the network issues on Tuesday, saying the company would work to investigate the cause of the problem.

‘We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services beginning at 11:20 UTC. 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,’ the statement read.

‘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. We will post updates to cloudflarestatus.com and more in-depth analysis when it is ready to blog.cloudflare.com.’