TikTok, banned in India and the United States, suffered a two-hour outage that left frustrated users worldwide unable to play videos.
After a two-hour outage that left disgruntled users throughout the globe unable to play videos, TikTok is finally operational again. The issues began at about 09:40 GMT (3:10 PM IST), according to DownDetector, a website that tracks such outages. The app, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance and banned in India, received over 8,000 complaints.
Although TikTok has not yet commented on or explained the outage, it looked to have been fixed at approximately 11:40 GMT (5:10 PM IST). According to reports, 53 per cent of users who experienced troubles said they had issues with the app, 32% with their feed, and 15% with their server connection.
Users in cities across the United Kingdom grumbled about encountering issues, including those in London and Bristol.
Thousands of users across the UK were impacted by an hour-long outage of the video app in November. Days later, there was another worldwide outage.
TikTok is a Chinese social networking app where users can live stream, make GIFs and brief films with various features, including music videos.
It was discovered that its users scroll through the app for an average of 197.8 million hours per day, ten times longer than what Instagram users spend on Reels, the app's counterpart.
More than 1 billion people use the social network based in Beijing each month, and its estimated value is 75 billion dollars.
TikTok down for two hours sparked a massive social media frenzy, with most users taking to Twitter to post memes:
Is TikTok down? Tik Tok pic.twitter.com/5xKhLMwIVU
— Whyischeesepink🍥 (@mdiab9)Is TikTok down? It’s my nighttime routine to watch TikTok and it’s not working for me 😭
— J (@heartofglassx)Tik tok down so now I gotta watch YouTube shorts pic.twitter.com/a1cu4HNVf5
— aditya 𖤐 (@wtvsosaa)literally all of us waiting for tiktok to work right now pic.twitter.com/qDonOtxm6C
— Aj (@mydadsawake)Me coming to twitter to see if tiktok is down pic.twitter.com/2cm9ymzjiK
— Chyvaun✌️🏴☠️ (@Cheezzx92)Everyone on Twitter since TikTok is down pic.twitter.com/Kl9cLQ9kQw
— Yasmina (@Yasmina74994818)i keep opening tiktok only to remember it’s down pic.twitter.com/0z6kicYlml
— m ★ (@ilikecowboyslol)community now on twitter checking if 😅 pic.twitter.com/MMRtdOUgef
— Elyes Chemengui (@ElyesChemengui)Back on twitter for the second time today, cuz apparently now it’s TikTok that is down pic.twitter.com/DSMTV2rdir
— donedonna (@goldnwhistle)Elon Musk after Twitter gets a spike because TikTok is Down pic.twitter.com/GNeUWiIbMZ
— Whyischeesepink🍥 (@mdiab9)i kept turning my wifi on and off only to realise tiktok was down pic.twitter.com/OXZ7vGbyGa
— ًrii ⋆ʚ♡⃛ɞ (@444timelord)TikTok is down now I’ve got to watch insta reels like a peasant pic.twitter.com/C5CKPUyQ3M
— Deano (@DeanJCox0218)TikTok users on their way to Twitter pic.twitter.com/T9LSr7Db7X
— Jordy Preston-Neal (@jordyprestnneal)Me apologising to my WiFi and phone carrier after finding out TikTok is down. pic.twitter.com/L82XKZnoks
— Oliver (@ofm_photography)everyone when any social media goes down coming to Twitter to complain about it pic.twitter.com/9l8qADONvW
— mort ! ELLA DAY (@queertubbo)me going to go watch my tiktok before bed but tiktok is down pic.twitter.com/2ZQwCRZUeb
— Evie (@user2038372892)guys tiktok is down?? im gonna go crazy pic.twitter.com/zedEoI5oub
— bella 🫐 (@Issyb_33)me trying to figure out if my wifi isn’t working or tiktok is actually down pic.twitter.com/xZdasS2Cz8
— m ✨ (@PRADAXBBY)me when tiktok is down 💔 pic.twitter.com/HDz5yqLpgr
— flo | GBGGC 1 YEAR!! (@szascartoons)