{"id":131851,"date":"2026-01-26T06:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131851\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T06:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:39:18","slug":"is-tiktok-down-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131851\/","title":{"rendered":"Is TikTok down? What we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gettyimages-2257704697-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">(Photo illustration by Cheng Xin\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Thousands of people were reporting problems with the TikTok app Sunday morning, frustrating users on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/news\/winter-storm-cancels-30-all-us-flights-what-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">biggest snow day of the year<\/a> for millions of Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DownDetector website<\/a>, outage reports peaked overnight with more than 35,000. That number was down to 4,600 by early Sunday afternoon. Users reported videos failing to load and showing 0 views.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">TikTok wasn\u2019t immediately available for comment. There&#8217;s no word yet on what caused the outage and how many users were affected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  TikTok deal <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"livenowfox.com\/news\/is-tiktok-down-what-we-know\" origination_station=\"LNFX\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The potential outage comes days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/news\/tiktok-strikes-deal-create-us-entity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TikTok finalized a deal to create a new American entity,<\/a> avoiding the threat of a ban in the United States that has been in discussion for years.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/news\/tiktok-strikes-deal-create-us-entity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">TikTok strikes deal to create US entity<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The company signed agreements with major investors including Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX to form the new TikTok U.S. joint venture.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Adam Presser, who previously worked as TikTok&#8217;s head of operations and trust and safety, will lead the new venture as its CEO.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He will work alongside a seven-member, majority-American board of directors that includes TikTok\u2019s CEO Shou Chew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article includes information from DownDetector.com and previous FOX Local reporting. FOX&#8217;s Catherine Stoddard contributed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/organization\/tiktok\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article (Photo illustration by Cheng Xin\/Getty Images) Thousands of people were reporting problems with the TikTok app Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[115,1536,135,137,136,3709],"class_list":{"0":"post-131851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-organization","10":"tag-tampa","11":"tag-tampa-headlines","12":"tag-tampa-news","13":"tag-tiktok"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}