TikTok down: Users complain of app not working | EUROtoday

TikTok customers within the U.S. are complaining that the app is just not working, with hundreds of experiences of an outage on the video-sharing platform.

Website Downdetector, which tracks issues reported by customers, noticed an enormous spike in complaints at roughly 4:30 p.m. ET, peaking at 32,000 points by 4:45 p.m.

Of these experiences, 79 % stated it was an issue with the app, whereas one other 19 % reported server connection points.

Users reporting that the favored video web site is down initially appeared concentrated in New York, Washington, D.C., Houston, and Seattle, with experiences quickly coming in to the location from throughout the U.S.

Some TikTokers report having the ability to briefly entry the app earlier than it went down once more.

The app skyrocketed in recognition within the U.S. in 2019, and by 2024, about 170 million Americans used the platform. One-third of adults within the U.S. informed Pew Research that they use the app, up from 21 % in 2021.

In early April, President Donald Trump prolonged the deadline for TikTok to discover a U.S. purchaser by a further 75 days to “ensure all necessary approvals are signed,” whereas stopping the favored social media app from going darkish in America.

On his first day in workplace, Trump delayed the app’s ban through an govt order, giving the Chinese-based proprietor, ByteDance, till Saturday, April 5, to discover a U.S. purchaser.

The administration was reportedly nearing a TikTok deal, however the Chinese authorities halted the talks after the president carried out extra tariffs on China.

Under a bipartisan invoice handed final yr and signed by former President Joe Biden, ByteDance should promote TikTok to a U.S.-based firm, or the app might be banned from U.S. servers such because the App Store and Google.

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