Aug 28 (Reuters) - Social media platform Reddit ( RDDT )

said on Wednesday it has resolved an issue related to an update

that led to an outage affecting thousands of users.

"Earlier today we shipped an update that unintentionally

impacted platform stability. We deployed a fix and are back up

and running," the company said in a statement to Reuters.

Reddit ( RDDT ) is known for its forums, or "subreddits", where

communities discuss various topics. It primarily relies on

advertising for its revenue.

Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status

reports from several sources including users, showed over

152,982 reports of outages in the U.S. as of 04:09 PM ET.

(Reporting by Tanay Dhumal in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun

Koyyur)