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Reddit down as users of social media site report major outage

Reddit is down for some users
Reddit is down for some users (Getty Images)
  • Reddit experienced a major worldwide outage on Tuesday afternoon, preventing users from accessing the social network.
  • The problems affected both the website version of Reddit and its native applications.
  • This incident occurred just hours after X, formerly Twitter, also faced a significant technical issue.
  • Reddit acknowledged 'elevated errors' around 5pm UK time and confirmed they were investigating the issue.
  • The company later stated that the issue had been identified and a fix was being implemented.
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