Massive Cloudflare Failure Hits X, ChatGPT, Spotify And Others

A major Cloudflare outage on Tuesday morning disrupted access to several widely used platforms, including ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify and Elon Musk’s X.

The failure came only a month after Musk mocked companies hit by an AWS outage, boasting that X had “no … AWS dependencies.” Ironically, X was knocked offline along with the rest.

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X, ChatGPT, Spotify, and even Morning Brew have been locking out users thanks to a major Cloudflare outage that briefly broke a large chunk (~20%) of the internet.

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— Morning Brew ☕️ (@MorningBrew) November 18, 2025

Signal President Meredith Whittaker used the incident to highlight the risks of centralizing the internet on a handful of infrastructure giants like Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services.

She argued that modern communication platforms have “no realistic alternative” to these hyperscale providers, raising concerns about resilience and privacy.

Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on ‘latent bug’ https://t.co/RwvLJk8Qmi

— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) November 18, 2025

Cloudflare said it identified the issue and was working on a fix, though service had not been fully restored at the time of publication.

The outage renewed debate over the fragility of internet infrastructure and the degree to which critical online services rely on the same few backbone companies.

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