Reddit looks into errors after Downdetector reports of vast global outage

(Reuters) -Social media platform Reddit said it was looking into elevated error rates, after Downdetector.com showed more than 100,000 users globally had reported issues with the social media platform.

In the U.S. alone, there were more than 133,948 incidents of people reporting issues with the platform as of 11:52 am ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.

Reddit had also experienced an outage last month which affected nearly 31,000 users.

(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath)