X down for many users amid ongoing Cloudflare outage

X (formerly Twitter) is currently unreachable for many users due to a Cloudflare service disruption causing widespread HTTP 500 errors, but the outage does not appear to be global.

The issue began surfacing around 11:48 UTC on November 18, 2025, when Cloudflare acknowledged a problem affecting its global network. According to the company’s system status page, the disruption is affecting multiple customers, with widespread 500 Internal Server Errors impacting not only user-facing websites but also the Cloudflare Dashboard and API infrastructure. X is among the affected services, though user reports and our own tests suggest reachability varies by region.

Users from Europe, India, and other regions receive a diagnostic page error indicating that X’s servers are operational, but Cloudflare’s edge servers are failing to proxy requests, indicating the fault lies within Cloudflare’s content delivery and edge network layer, rather than on X’s infrastructure itself.

This is further corroborated by X’s own service status page which indicates normal operation from their end.

Cloudflare, a critical internet infrastructure provider that offers CDN, DDoS protection, and security services to major websites, is continuing to investigate the root cause of the disruption. No timeline for resolution has been provided as of this writing, and the scope of affected services remains unclear.

Until service is fully restored, users encountering this issue can try switching to mobile networks or using VPNs that can route their requests from other regions where connectivity hasn’t been impacted yet. As the root issue is within Cloudflare’s global network, success may vary.