Some TikTok users continue to report problems posting videos and viewing metrics following a weekend outage.
The outage came after TikTok was sold by its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to a group of investors to create a new U.S. TikTok, the New York Times reported.
This allowed TikTok to avoid the looming threat of a ban in the United States. The platform is used by more than 200 million Americans.
Investors including the software giant Oracle; MGX, an Emirati investment firm; and Silver Lake, another investment firm, will own more than 80 percent of the new venture, the Times said. That list also includes the personal investment entity for Michael Dell, the tech billionaire behind Dell Technologies, and other firms, TikTok said.
Oracle, MGX and Silver Lake will each own 15% of TikTok’s U.S. operations, and ByteDance will own just under 20%, according to the Times.
President Donald Trump praised the news in a post on his Truth Social platform, calling it a “dramatic, final, and beautiful conclusion” to the six-year legal battle over the popular app, the Times said.
“I am so happy to have helped in saving TikTok!” he wrote. “I only hope that long into the future I will be remembered by those who use and love TikTok.”
Snowstorm outage
TikTok went down in the early morning hours Sunday, with reports indicating problems since 3:51 a.m., according to Downdetector, The Economic Times reported.
The outage peaked around this time — with over 36,000 reports, according to Downdetector, the Pensacola News Journal reported.
Issues continued for users throughout the day, which coincided with the snowstorm that hit much of the northeastern part of the United States Sunday.
In the last 24 hours, the peak number of reports of probems sent to Downdetector by TikTok users in the United States reached over 8,500 at around 7:18 p.m. Sunday. The baseline report number for that time is usually just 16.
As of noon Monday, the number of reports of problems sent in to Downdetector is at 1,370, with a usual number for that time of just 13.
Speculation online surrounding the outage and continued issues has resulted in numerous users speaking out via stories and posts on multiple social media platforms — saying they believe the outage could be linked to the Saturday shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by federal agents.
Users have reported that videos discussing ICE agents or the shooting are getting zero views on their TikTok accounts.
TIKTOK IS SUPPRESSING VIDEOS ABOUT ALEX PERETTI’S MURDER!
— ???????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????? (@EmilyKozel) January 25, 2026
I posted a video over 8 hours ago talking about ICE agents murdering a man in Minnesota & my video has ZERO views. Never has a video Ive posted on TikTok gotten less than a few hundred within hours.
This is intentional. pic.twitter.com/sZGm1hwoGc
Popular influencer Anna x Sitar (@annaxsitar) also posted about a TikTok issue via Instagram stories.
In a screenshot that shows her TikTok video grid, she has a video circled where she said she tried to post resources on how to help in Minnesota, but the video is stuck at zero views.
Sitar’s videos before and after that video posted to TikTok have hundreds of thousands of views.
