{"id":78919,"date":"2025-11-18T19:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78919"},"modified":"2025-11-18T19:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:34:27","slug":"cloudflare-outage-disrupts-x-chatgpt-spotify-and-other-major-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/18\/cloudflare-outage-disrupts-x-chatgpt-spotify-and-other-major-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudflare Outage Disrupts X, ChatGPT, Spotify and Other Major Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/p>\n<p>A widespread Cloudflare disruption on Tuesday briefly knocked several major online services offline, including X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, Spotify and Canva, leaving thousands of users unable to access platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The outage began early in the day after what Cloudflare described as a spike in \u201cunusual traffic\u201d triggered routing problems across its global network. Downdetector recorded a surge in error reports, peaking at nearly 5,000.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare said it deployed a fix by 9:42 a.m. ET and continued monitoring systems as services gradually returned.<\/p>\n<p>Some users, however, still experienced issues accessing their dashboards.<\/p>\n<p>The incident affected multiple platforms, ranging from League of Legends and Grindr to Downdetector itself, highlighting the internet\u2019s heavy dependence on major infrastructure providers and the ripple effect when they falter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat A widespread Cloudflare disruption on Tuesday briefly knocked several major online services offline, including X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, Spotify and Canva, leaving thousands of users unable to access platforms. The outage began early in the day after what Cloudflare described as a spike in \u201cunusual traffic\u201d triggered routing problems across its global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78923,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78919\/revisions\/78923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}