By RTTNews.com
Publication Date: 2026-01-28 17:00:00
(RTTNews) – Technology giant Oracle Corp. (ORCL), which provides cloud infrastructure to TikTok, reportedly said that a temporary weather-related power outage at an Oracle data center caused the problems faced by US users of the social media app.
Reuters reported, citing Oracle spokesman Michael Egbert’s email, that the challenges US TikTok users may face were due to technical issues that followed the blackout.
Over the weekend, TikTok users in several regions of the US experienced widespread service outages. They complained that they couldn’t log in to the app or load the videos.
The companies said they were working to quickly resolve the major infrastructure problem.
Last week, TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance struck a deal to form a majority U.S.-owned joint venture, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, to avert a ban on the short-video app used by more than 200 million Americans. The majority American board of directors for…