Oh dear - the recent TikTok outage was due to an Oracle data center going down

• TikTok took six days to fully restore services after an Oracle outage took parts of the app down
• Severe winter weather caused a power outage, and several knock-on effects
• This happened in the same month that TikTok's US ownership was complete

TikTok has confirmed its recent downtime was due to a power outage at one of its primary US data centers, operated by Oracle, which triggered knock-on effects for tens of thousands of servers.

The company outlined how a "major infrastructure issue" on January 26 caused "multiple bugs, slower load times, or timed-out requests," leading some creators' videos to show 0 views or likes.

Although the primary caused was identified and fixed pretty quickly, it took TikTok nearly a week to fully restore connections in some geographies.