Some TikTok users in the United States are currently experiencing issues with the app. The company states the problem stems from an incident at an Oracle data center. TikTok has acknowledged that creators may face temporary delays when posting content while Oracle works to resolve the issue.
User reports on Downdetector indicate the trouble began before 9 a.m. Eastern Time. Oracle’s own communications confirm the outage started around that same time.
Oracle is a member of the investor group that owns 80 percent of the TikTok USDS Joint Venture. This entity was formed to comply with a U.S. national security law that required Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest its American TikTok operations or face a ban.
Oracle has provided cloud services and managed user data for TikTok since before the joint venture’s creation. Since the sale, Oracle-related problems have now been linked to two significant TikTok outages. Just days after the deal was finalized in January, a similar outage occurred, which TikTok attributed to a winter storm impacting a major Oracle data center.
Oracle has not yet identified the cause of Tuesday’s outage.