By skyforbes How two tech giants paralyzed the digital world in 30 days — and why your business should be terrified
I was trying to order my morning coffee through the McDonald’s app when everything froze. “500 Internal Server Error” stared back at me from the screen. Frustrated, I switched to Twitter to see if anyone else was having problems—you know, the classic modern reflex. But Twitter was dead. ChatGPT wouldn’t load. Spotify was silent. Even Downdetector, the site we rely on to track these outages, was down.
The date was November 18, 2025 — only a month had passed and already a tech company’s collapse had affected the same number of websites and services again. On October 20 it was Amazon Web Services. Now, it is Cloudflare. Two giant companies. Two disastrous outages. One month.
If you’re thinking this is just another tech hiccup that IT departments need to worry about, you’re missing the bigger picture. This is about economic vulnerability, social infrastructure, and the fragile foundation holding our digital lives together.