July 16 (Reuters) - Social media platform Reddit ( RDDT )

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 ( RDDT ) had also experienced an outage last month which

affected nearly 31,000 users.

(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika

Syamnath)