Cloudflare outage briefly disrupts 'X,' Canva, and more

Technology Nov 21, 2025

Cloudflare had a short network hiccup on Friday that made X (formerly Twitter) glitchy for some users.
As of 10:57am ET, more than 500 US users were reporting issues, but most people were back online pretty quickly.

What happened and why it matters

At first, over 20,000 outage reports poured in—mostly from users noticing issues on their favorite platforms. By 11:47am ET, things had mostly settled down.
Cloudflare is a big name behind the scenes of the internet, helping keep sites running smoothly and safe from attacks.
This isn't their first bump; other tech giants like Amazon AWS and Microsoft have also faced similar outages recently.