Issues at Cloudflare, an internet services company, disrupted wide swaths of the internet across the globe and right here in Ohio before it was restored late in the morning of Nov. 18. Several popular websites and apps were experiencing outages the morning of Nov. 18, according to Downdetector, a site that tracks outages across the internet.

Cloudflare suffered an outage on Tuesday, disrupting services for thousands of users across websites that rely on the company’s network infrastructure.

A Cloudflare software failure caused major sites like Spotify, X and ChatGPT to go dark, highlighting the internet’s growing centralization.

Canva, OpenAi, Cloudflare and others have stopped responding, the users often rush to Downdetector. But today, at around 6:35PM IST, we witnessed that even the Downdetector is not working (it's home page is not loading) for many users.

A massive Cloudflare outage on November 18th crippled major platforms like OpenAI, X, and Spotify, leaving millions offline. The disruption, stemming

On DownDetector, the issues with X are being reported as 58% app problems and 32% web. Users are unable to access their accounts on the app or on desktop. It is now reported that X is beginning to operate as normal with users being able to access their accounts.