TikTok is down for some in the US, thanks to Oracle’s outage for the second time since the sale

Some TikTok users in the US are having trouble using the app, which the company attributes to an issue with Oracle’s data center.

“Creators may experience a temporary delay in publishing content while Oracle works to resolve the issue,” TikTok on X said.

According to user-generated reports on Downdetector, the issue has been persistent since before 9 a.m. ET. Oracle’s own post on X indicates that the outage began at that time as well.

Oracle is part of an investor group that owns 80% of the TikTok USDS joint venture, which was created to comply with a national security law that requires Chinese company ByteDance to divest its US TikTok business or be banned in the United States.

Oracle has been providing cloud services and managing user data for TikTok since before the creation of the TikTok USDS joint venture. Since the sale, Oracle’s issues have now contributed to two major outages at TikTok.

A few days after the sale concluded in January, TikTok experienced a similar outage, which it attributed to a winter storm that affected a major Oracle data center.

Oracle has not yet determined the cause of Tuesday’s outage.