Cloudflare is down, causing outages at X, OpenAI, and even taking some multiplayer games offline

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Ugh, not again! It looks like Cloudflare is having problems, and a bunch of my favorite sites, like X (formerly Twitter), are down. I just checked their status page, and yep, they’re confirming it. It’s so frustrating when these things happen!

As an analyst, I’m currently tracking an issue affecting some of our customers at Cloudflare. We’re actively investigating and will share more details as soon as we have them.

Cloudflare, 6:48 AM ET

Around 6:00 AM Eastern Time, problems began with the company that handles support requests for Cloudflare. This caused disruptions to Elon Musk’s social media platform, and players also reported issues with popular games like League of Legends, according to reports on Downdetector.

Having trouble loading content on X (formerly Twitter), using Canva, or playing League of Legends? It’s probably due to a website security measure. You might be seeing messages like “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com,” which means access is being blocked – this is happening on sites like OpenAI, preventing access to ChatGPT.

As an analyst, I want to assure you that if you’re seeing this message, it’s not due to any action on your part. It simply means Cloudflare’s security services are currently experiencing issues, even though the websites themselves are still functioning normally.

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2025-11-18 15:12