Another Oracle outage wreaks havoc on US TikTok

The US version of TikTok is once again facing issues due to an Oracle outage, just one month after it came back online. Similar outage in February.

the outageaffecting Oracle’s Ashburn, Virginia, data center, began early Tuesday afternoon, with… Downdetector Reports go up around 1 p.m. ET. TikTok USDS confirmed In a post on X Users in the US “may experience temporary delays in publishing content while Oracle works to resolve the issue,” it said.

This is the second disruption of service that the American version of TikTok has suffered after deal in January Which transferred majority ownership away from the original owner of the platform, the Chinese company ByteDance. the Previous round of cases This happened shortly after a joint venture, TikTok USDS, which includes Oracle, acquired the app in the US as part of that deal. According to TikTok USDS, this was a service outage Due to a power outage In Oracle data center.