{"id":14631,"date":"2026-01-27T11:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/a-tiktok-us-power-outage-caused-a-cascading-systems-failure-leading-to-multiple-bugs\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:56:54","slug":"a-tiktok-us-power-outage-caused-a-cascading-systems-failure-leading-to-multiple-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/a-tiktok-us-power-outage-caused-a-cascading-systems-failure-leading-to-multiple-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"A TikTok US power outage caused a &#8216;cascading systems failure&#8217; leading to multiple bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">If your TikTok feed has felt a little off lately, it&rsquo;s not just you. TikTok says is still working to fix its service in the US following a power outage at one of its data centers that&rsquo;s caused &ldquo;multiple bugs&rdquo; in the app. TikTok users have reported problems logging in and uploading videos, as well as strange behavior from the &ldquo;for you&rdquo; algorithm. Creators have also noticed that new uploads are seemingly getting o views or likes and that in-app earnings have disappeared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">&ldquo;Since yesterday we&rsquo;ve been working to restore our services following a power outage at a U.S. data center impacting TikTok and other apps we operate,&rdquo; the company wrote in a statement Monday. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re working with our data center partner to stabilize our service. We&rsquo;re sorry for this disruption and hope to resolve it soon.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">In a subsequent update several hours later, the company said that the power outage had caused a &ldquo;cascading systems failure&rdquo; that is still affecting the app and leading to &ldquo;multiple bugs,&rdquo; including those affecting view counts and load times. &ldquo;Creators may temporarily see &lsquo;0&rsquo; views or likes on videos, and your earnings may look like they&rsquo;re missing,&rdquo; the company wrote in an update on X. &ldquo;This is a display error caused by server timeouts; your actual data and engagement are safe.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The statement didn&rsquo;t directly address reported issues with the app&rsquo;s recommendation algorithm. Since Sunday, users have reported seeing a wave of generic videos flood their feeds, which are typically hyper-personalized. Other users have reported seeing the same few videos repeated over and over again.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_ngb7bm9anqiv5tilbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_17gb7bm9anqiv5tilbH1_\">\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The issues come just days after TikTok finalized a deal to spin off its US business into a separate entity largely controlled by US investors. That timing hasn&rsquo;t gone unnoticed by users, many of whom are already suspicious of the company pushing a terms of service and privacy policy in the hours after the deal was finalized.&nbsp;The problems affecting the app&rsquo;s recommendation algorithm have also raised questions about TikTok USDS Joint Venture&rsquo;s plans to &ldquo;retrain&rdquo; TikTok&rsquo;s central feature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\"><strong>Update, January 26, 2026, 4:18PM PT: <\/strong>This post has been updated to include additional information from TikTok about the outage and bugs affecting users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>A TikTok US power outage caused a &lsquo;cascading systems failure&rsquo; leading to multiple bugs<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your TikTok feed has felt a little off lately, it&rsquo;s not just you. TikTok says is still working to fix its service in the US following a power outage at one of its data centers that&rsquo;s caused &ldquo;multiple bugs&rdquo; in the app. TikTok users have reported problems logging in and uploading videos, as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/a-tiktok-us-power-outage-caused-a-cascading-systems-failure-leading-to-multiple-bugs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;A TikTok US power outage caused a &#8216;cascading systems failure&#8217; leading to multiple bugs&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}