On November 18, 2025, a major internet outage affected several of the biggest online services in the world, including X, ChatGPT, and many websites that rely on Cloudflare for security and traffic routing. For platforms that normally manage billions of requests every day, users complained about slow loading times, broken websites, and total outages. Dane Knecht, the chief technology officer of Cloudflare, provided a thorough explanation of the internal issue that resulted in a worldwide outage on Twitter as uncertainty grew. Mr. Knecht admitted that Cloudflare had “failed” both its clients and the internet as a whole.
Cloudflare Problem: How a “latent bug” caused X and Chat GPT services to be disrupted globally Described
