Reddit investigate as ‘heart of the internet’ goes down for at least 150,000 users

Social media giants Reddit have said it was looking into ‘elevated error rates’, after Downdetector.com showed more than 150,000 users globally.

In the US alone, there were more than 133,948 people reporting issues with the platform, according to Downdetector, a website which tracks outages.

At it’s peak around 5pm in the UK nearly 17,000 Brits reported issues on the aggregator.

Reddit had also experienced an outage last month which affected nearly 31,000 users.

The San Francisco-based company has consistently ranked in the top 10 for most used websites in the world. Last year, Reddit reported having 73million daily users and more than 100,000 active communities.

On the US Election Day last year, Reddit was looking into ‘degraded performance’ and resolved the issues after hours.

Reddit went public in March, and in October reported it was profitable for the first time since becoming a publicly traded company.