Sept 15 (Reuters) - An outage affecting thousands of

users of social media platform Reddit ( RDDT ) in the U.S. had

eased after a brief downtime on Monday, according to tracking

website Downdetector.com.

There were nearly 650 incidents of people reporting issues

with the platform as of 5.40 p.m. ET compared with over 21,000

reports earlier, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages

by collating status reports from a number of sources.

Reddit ( RDDT ) did not immediately respond to a request for comment.