U.S. TikTok users were experiencing service disruptions Tuesday related to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure issue. Something similar happened almost exactly a month ago.
With a September deadline looming, a new report says TikTok is building a replacement app for its 170 million American users as part of a sale to an Oracle led group.
The popular app is facing a looming ban in the U.S. over its ties to China, but Trump claims a mystery buyer is waiting.
The TikTok ban goes back into effect on April 5.
The deadline for TikTok to sell is April 5.
Apple and Google have kept TikTok off their respective app stores, despite promises by President Trump that they would not be punished for hosting the app as it gets a temporary reprieve from ban.
With the app removed from the App Store, people have to go a long way to get their fix.
After nearly two days of outages–longer than TikTok itself was down in the U.S.–developer Second Dinner says changes are being made to avoid Snap being caught by future potential action against Bytedance.
"He was just sitting there watching it burn," the congressman told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
The U.S. government's ban against ByteDance products has hit folks hard, but Second Dinner says Marvel Snap "isn't going anywhere."
RedNote has become popular with Americans as the TikTok ban looms.
The app could theoretically continue to function in the short term, but service providers will be prohibited from working with TikTok.
Will Americans actually use an app where the captchas aren't even in English?
