TechTalk has faced widespread problems in its first weekend since completing the sale of its US arm, although some of the issues appear to have spilled over globally. TikTok has yet to confirm any issues a day after the problems began, making it difficult to gauge the extent of the problems.
Anyway, Tactics – including some Verge Authors – Problems logging in, unable to upload videos, a page algorithm for you that resets itself, problems loading comments and other site features are verified.
According to Down Detector, things went up early Sunday morning, but some users are still reporting errors. Many have found it impossible to upload videos, which sit “under review” indefinitely, and for one Verge Author It’s still the case – a video uploaded last night has yet to go live on his page six hours later.
As of last week, TikTok’s U.S. operation is owned by an investment consortium that includes Larry Ellison’s cloud giant Oracle, with its long-threatened solution to the U.S. ban. This has already led to the imposition of new terms of service on US users, including the collection of more precise location data and details of users’ AI interactions. The new owners also rein in the moderation of US content, which even before this weekend’s events had led some to fear censorship, and will have to retrain the app’s algorithms based on US data.
Given the timing, many have drawn a link between TikTok’s affairs, the new Trump-friendly owners of its U.S. operations, and this weekend’s anti-assault in Minneapolis, exacerbated by the killing of another local resident, Alex Pretty, by federal agents. The error message phrase resulted in several politically active accounts being deemed worst when they wouldn’t publish their videos, as this fact previously filled your pages with politically normal content.
However, so far there’s no reason to believe that the outage was directly related to Ice activity this weekend, especially since some Redditors outside of the US have also reported issues with the app — though that’s fine for two. VergeBritish writers. It’s not guaranteed that the new ownership has anything to do with it, as technical problems due to backend changes during the migration could easily impact Tektok’s global user base.
We reached out to Tektok for comment on the closure, but had not heard back by the time of publication.
