Nov 20 (Reuters) - Reddit ( RDDT ) said on Wednesday it

has rolled out a fix for a software bug that prevented tens of

thousands of people from accessing the social media platform in

the U.S.

The outage began around 3 pm ET, according to Downdetector,

which tracks outages by collating status reports from several

sources including users reports. At the peak, there were around

49,000 reports of problems with the platform.

The figure had come down to around 14,575 reports as of 4.32

p.m. ET.

"There was a bug in a recent update we made, but a fix is in

place and we're ramping back up," Reddit ( RDDT ) said in a statement.

(Reporting by Juveria Tabassum and Tanay Dhumal in Bengaluru;

Editing by Arun Koyyur)