Major websites including social network X and AI chatbot ChatGPT were disrupted on Tuesday after US online services provider Cloudflare said it had been affected by a "latent bug".

Web monitor Downdetector recorded disruptions for users of X, video game "League of Legends" and some services from Google and OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.

Cloudflare, which specialises in online security and says it manages some 20 percent of global internet traffic, saw its share price slump 1.5 percent in early trading.

"Earlier today we failed our customers and the broader internet when a problem in Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us," chief technology officer Dane Knecht wrote on X, adding that the problem had since been resolved.

"In short, a latent bug in a service

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