TikTok Suffers Outage, Users Frustrated

10/03/2022

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PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 05: In this photo illustration, the social media application logo, Tik Tok is displayed on the screen of an iPhone on March 05, 2019 in Paris, France. The social network broke the rules for the protection of children's online privacy (COPPA) and was fined $ 5.7 million. The fact TikTok criticized is quite serious in the United States, the platform, which currently has more than 500 million users worldwide, collected data that should not have asked minors. TikTok, also known as Douyin in China, is a media app for creating and sharing short videos. Owned by ByteDance, Tik Tok is a leading video platform in Asia, United States, and other parts of the world. In 2018, the application gained popularity and became the most downloaded app in the U.S. in October 2018. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

Video sharing app, TikTok, suffered an outage on Thursday.

Many users worldwide were unable to access the popular app.

Issues initially sprung at around 11:30 GMT, with Down Detector, a website that monitors such issues, recording almost 2,000 reports of problems.

TikTok users who were unable to access the app took to Twitter to complain about the outage, with some complaining that their videos are not showing.

The outage is barely a week after TikTok revealed it will increase the three minute limit on videos and allow all users to upload 10 minutes long clips.

The app has since been seen as a short-form video platform but has gradually turned itself to rival apps such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and others.

10/03/2022

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