Simple, if embarrassing, infrastructure issues can snowball into conspiracies about how Donald Trump is trying to tame the app. Welcome to the new world of TikTok. Anyone wanting to get their TikTok fix in the United States recently had a rough time. The app went haywire, kicking off early on the morning of January 25, due to a power outage at a key data center that knocked out services nationwide. Users reported the app crashing, with videos getting stuck and refusing to play, upload, or even hit a single view.