At the end of last week, the long-anticipated transfer to US ownership for TikTok operations in the US officially took place. But it didn’t take long for American TikTok users to start seeing signs of a broken app. Now, we have an official explanation.
TikTok issues blamed on power outage at US data center
If you tried using TikTok over the weekend, or even today, the app may have been broken in several ways.
As reported by The Verge, some users couldn’t see new videos in TikTok, or upload videos themselves, among other issues. In some cases, US users’ algorithm even appeared to have reset.
Now we have an official explanation from TikTok’s new US ownership.
It was posted this morning on X from the official ‘TikTok USDS Joint Venture’ account.
Since yesterday we’ve been working to restore our services following a power outage at a U.S. data center impacting TikTok and other apps we operate. We're working with our data center partner to stabilize our service. We're sorry for this disruption and hope to resolve it soon. — TikTok USDS Joint Venture (@tiktokusdsjv) January 26, 2026
Most of the US has been impacted by severe winter weather in the last few days. And while the statement doesn’t officially blame weather for the outage, it’s highly likely that’s what’s responsible.
It’s unfortunate timing since the transfer to US ownership just happened. But hopefully this incident will be resolved quickly, and lead the TikTok USDS Joint Venture to double down on service stability moving forward.
Have you been impacted by any TikTok issues these last few days? Let us know in the comments.
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