A Cloudflare outage is taking down parts of the internet
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- 2025-11-18 12:15
Large parts of the internet are struggling to load right now, possibly due to an issue at Cloudflare.The internet infrastructure service has confirmed issues, and is investigating the problem as we speak.We think this could be what's causing a similar outage at Twitter, with many other popular websites seeming to stutter too - here's what we know so far...First off - the issue appears to have hit a number of major websites, including X, formerly known as Twitter, film reviewing site Letterboxd - and even outage tracker website DownDetector, which is making tracking the issue quite tricky for us...Cloudflare has confirmed the problem, posting at 11.48am GMT;"Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which impacts multiple customers: Widespread 500 errors, Cloudflare Dashboard and API also failing."We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly."
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