March 27 (Reuters) - Reddit ( RDDT ) was down for

thousands of users in the U.S. on Thursday, as X's services

appeared to stabilize, according to outage tracking website

Downdetector.com.

There were more than 28,000 incidents of people reporting

issues with Reddit ( RDDT ) as of 3:40 p.m. ET, Downdetector showed,

which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number

of sources.

Reddit ( RDDT ) said on its status page "a fix has been

implemented and we are monitoring the results," as it confirmed

degraded performance that affected its website at 3:16 p.m. ET.

Meanwhile, the number of reports for Elon Musk-owned X

dropped sharply to around 700 as of 3:40 p.m. ET.

More than 18,000 incidents were reported at the peak of X's

outage, which started around 3:03 p.m. ET.

X and Reddit ( RDDT ) did not immediately respond to Reuters'

requests for comment.

Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports.

The actual number of affected users may vary.