TIKTOK is facing global outages as thousands of users have reported issues with the app.
On Wednesday at around 10 a.m. EST, thousands of users from around the world took to the outage website DownDetector to describe problems with TikTok.
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Around 52 percent of users reported problems with the app, per DownDetector.
Meanwhile, 43 percent claimed issues with the server connection, and the remaining 5 percent of reports couldn’t access the website.
Thousands of users also took to DownDetector’s comments section to express their dismay with the app being down.
“When all you wanted to do was watch TikTok while feeding your newborn but Tiktok made you think your internet wasn’t working so you restarted your router for nothing,” one frustrated user wrote.
“I was in the middle of going live and now no internet connection,” a second person remarked.
“Who pulled the plug again? I was checking my internet connection for nothing,” a third TikTok user added.
“It’s saying I got no internet connection when I’m literally connected to the internet,” a fourth disgruntled user said.
It’s not immediately clear what caused the mass outage of TikTok, it’s also unclear how many users are affected worldwide.
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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 not typically common for the company – however, it did face another hiccup on November 1, 2022.
