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TikTok stopped working in the US on Saturday, January 18.
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This is because of the TikTok ban which was recently upheld by the Supreme Court.
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President Trump has indicated he may try to bring back the app, but a return date has not been announced.
A wildly successful social media/video app TikTok Does not work in the United States until Saturday, January 18th at 10:00 pm CST. Musical.ly's successor, TikTok, exploded in popularity during the pandemic, quickly becoming one of the world's most used apps. Millions of people use TikTok on a daily basis, but unfortunately for its fans, the app has been a political target for years.
TikTok was developed by Chinese company ByteDance, which some politicians have accused of collecting user data for the Chinese government. TikTok itself has vehemently denied these allegations, but that hasn't stopped the case against it from going to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has unanimously decided to go ahead with the proposed TikTok ban. President Biden has indicated that his administration will not enforce the ban, and incoming President Trump has suggested that he might do something to keep the app online. Despite this, TikTok is no longer available in the US at the time of this writing.
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TikTok stopped working on Saturday, January 18 at 10:00 PM CST. TikTok's ban in the United States has made the app unusable, meaning users can't scroll for their page, access saved videos, or talk to their friends. . When trying to use TikTok in the US right now, users are greeted with the message, “Sorry, TikTok is not available right now. Unfortunately, a law banning TikTok has been implemented in the US, which means you can't use TikTok. For now, we're lucky that the President Trump will work with us to restore TikTok once he takes office Tune in!”
Is TikTok down now?
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TikTok will not work in the US from January 18.
Before TikTok was banned, a solution was proposed for ByteDance to sell the app to an American company. That hasn't happened, and so it's unclear what solution could be reached to reinstate the app, assuming Trump tries to do so. Meanwhile, angry TikTok users have found their own ways to protest the ban. There have been individual protests, but users have also started downloading RedNote en masse. RedNote, for starters, is very similar to TikTok, but it's aimed squarely at users in China.
Sorry, TikTok is not available right now. A law banning TikTok has been passed in the US, unfortunately, which means you can't use TikTok right now. We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to restore TikTok once he takes office. Please stay in touch!
Whether Trump is able to bring TikTok back remains to be seen, but it will certainly be interesting to see what happens in the coming days. Meanwhile, MrBeast has teased that he himself has been in talks with billionaires about the possibility of buying TikTok, but it's hard to say if anything like that will actually happen. For now, TikTok users in the US cannot use the app, and A return date has not been announced.
