If you noticed your favorite websites and social media sites down this morning this is probably why. Cloudflare an internet infrastructure company was down on Tuesday morning resulting on may popular websites and social media sites to be temporary down. Platforms such as Indeed, Truth Social, OpenAI and X all were reported own this morning. CNBC reported more on the connection issues related to Cloudflare being down: Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was hit by an outage on Tuesday, knocking several major websites offline for global users. Many sites came back online within a few hours. In an update to its status page around 9:57 a.m. ET, Cloudflare said it had implemented a fix to resolve the issues. “We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal,” the company added. E-commerce platform Shopify, job search engine Indeed, Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, President Donald Trump’s Truth Social and Elon Musk’s social media platform X were among the sites impacted by the Cloudflare issues, according to Downdetector, which itself could not be accessed briefly for some users. Some of NJ Transit’s digital services were brought down by the outage. OpenAI’s status page indicated its ChatGPT and Sora short-form video app were recovering after experiencing issues due to a “third-party service provider.” A Cloudflare spokesperson said the company observed a “spike in unusual traffic” to one of its services around 6:20 a.m. ET, causing some traffic passing through its network to experience errors. “We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic,” the spokesperson added. “We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors.” Cloudflare’s software is used by many businesses worldwide, helping to manage and secure traffic for about 20% of the web. Among the services it provides are that it guards against distributed denial of service attacks, which are when malicious actors attempt to overload a website’s system with so many traffic requests that it can’t function. Shares of Cloudflare slid more than 3%. Cloudflare went down early this morning, causing half the internet to go offline. Major platforms like Twitter/X, ChatGPT (OpenAI), Spotify, Facebook, Telegram, League of Legends, Letterboxd, and others were affected. pic.twitter.com/tNUaGGxNib — FearBuck (@FearedBuck) November 18, 2025 BBC reported last month AWS suffered a similar outage: Amazon Web Services (AWS) has apologised to customers impacted by Monday’s massive outage, after it knocked some of the world’s largest platforms offline. Snapchat, Reddit and Lloyds Bank were among more than 1,000 sites and services reported to have gone down as a result of issues at the heart of the cloud computing giant’s operations in North Virginia, US on 20 October. In a detailed summary of what caused the outage, Amazon said it occurred as a result of errors which meant its internal systems could not connect websites with the IP addresses computers use to find them. “We apologise for the impact this event caused our customers,” the company said. “We know how critical our services are to our customers, their applications and end users, and their businesses. “We know this event impacted many customers in significant ways.” While many platforms such as the online games Roblox and Fortnite were back up and running within a few hours of the outage, some services experienced prolonged downtime. This included Lloyds Bank, with some customers experiencing issues until mid-afternoon, as well as US payments app Venmo and social media site Reddit.