TIKTOK briefly went offline in the U.K. in what appears to have been a nationwide outage.
Problems with the service began around 10:17 a.m, according to online outage trackers.
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Half an hour later, the service appeared to have been restored for most users.
More than 500 people reported being unable to use the app to DownDetector, which monitors apps and other services.
Sixty per cent of complainants reported having problems with the app, while 26 per cent said they could not connect to TikTok’s servers.
A further 15 per cent reported issues with TikTok’s feed – the infinite stream of videos that users scroll through.
The Sun tried to access the app from London and found that videos were not loading on the For You feed.
Content on people’s profiles also failed to load properly.
Users in the U.S. were not affected by the outage, according to data available on DownDetector.
TikTok has not yet acknowledged the issue. The Sun has reached out to the company for comment.
Users took to Twitter to grumble about the unexpected downtime.
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One wrote: “Is tiktok down it won’t show me any videos when i click on peoples accounts.”
Another tweeted: “Tiktok is down this morning, nothing is loading and none of my videos are showing up on my profile? Is it a glitch or something????”
And a third said: “Is it just my tiktok that’s down or anyone else’s.”
TikTok launched in 2018 and has quickly become one of the world’s most popular apps, boasting an estimated one billion users.
It is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance. The Chinese version of the app, called Douyin, was created in 2016.
Users post and watch short videos in which they dance, lip-sync, act out sketches and more.
Outages are relatively rare for the company. The last major hiccup struck TikTok on March 10, 2022.
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