Altogether, Cloudflare reported in its 2025 fourth quarter analysis that it observed more than 180 internet disruptions worldwide over the course of 2025, ranging from short, localized incidents to multiday nationwide outages. The most dramatic outages involved physical infrastructure failures, especially submarine cables and national power grids. For example, in Haiti, Digicel suffered two separate international fiber cuts in October and November, pushing traffic on its network close to zero during one incident and triggering multi‑hour outages until repairs were completed.
Across 2025 as a whole, the company tracked more than 180 significant disruptions, with the final quarter dominated by cable damage, power problems, and routine operational failures. There was just one confirmed government-directed shutdown during the period. Tanzania saw a sharp drop in internet traffic on October 29 as violent protests broke out during the country's presidential election, with traffic falling by more than 90 percent. Traffic returned briefly before declining again, and routing data pointed to throttling rather than a clean shutdown.
Around 10 a.m. ET, Cloudflare said it was "continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal." Other platforms that experienced outages Tuesday included the social media site X, Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase, and the Moody's credit ratings service. Moody's website displayed an Error Code 500 and instructed individuals to visit Cloudflare's website for more information. New Jersey Transit said parts of its digital services including njtransit.com, may be temporarily unavailable or slow to load.