Overview
- TikTok said late Sunday it fully recovered U.S. operations, crediting round-the-clock work with Oracle and issuing an apology to users.
- The company reported that a snowstorm caused a power loss that led to network and storage failures affecting tens of thousands of servers.
- Creators experienced problems posting, searching, and seeing real-time likes or view counts, with some reports of zero views on new uploads.
- The disruption coincided with the finalized U.S. ownership shift, which gives an Oracle‑led consortium about 80% of TikTok’s U.S. entity while ByteDance retains roughly 20%.
- Rival short‑video apps saw gains during the outage, with Skylight topping 380,000 users and Upscrolled reaching the No. 2 spot in U.S. App Store social rankings.