Late Monday night, reports started flooding in about problems with TikTok. While not completely offline, users experienced significant issues across the platform. Downdetector showed a surge of over 44,000 reported outages at its peak.
The problems weren’t uniform. While video loading seemed to function on mobile apps for some, accessing features like comments or switching accounts proved unreliable. This led to confusion among users, with some even fearing their accounts had been banned.
Accessing the TikTok website or its support pages resulted in a generic “An error occurred while processing your request” message, along with a reference code. No official statement from TikTok has addressed the cause of the disruption yet, and status pages for its service providers like Akamai and Oracle didn’t show any broader network issues.
Reports trickled in from various social media platforms, including Reddit, Twitter, and Bluesky, all confirming widespread service disruptions. The exact nature and extent of the problem remain unclear until an official statement from TikTok is issued.
We’ll continue to monitor the situation and update this post with any new information as it becomes available. In the meantime, it seems many users are experiencing a forced break from their usual TikTok scrolling – perhaps a welcome respite for some! We’ll keep you posted.
