US TikTok customers went nuts Sunday over the controversial app’s fast return from the lifeless.
Devotees of the Chinese language-run social-media platform wasted no time celebrating the ban reprieve orchestrated by President-elect Donald Trump simply hours after the platform went darkish.
“Again in motion,” a consumer crowed on X after the service was reactivated. “It was a horrible sleepover over Instagram however thanks for internet hosting us.”
Different individuals wrote they had been shocked how shortly the app was up and operating once more.
“The whiplash I’m getting from TikTok disappearing just for it to be again now? Insane,” an X consumer wrote. “I knew it might occur, however nonetheless lol”
One other particular person posted, “TikTok has resurrected” — whereas others merely stated, “Again babyyyy!”
Amongst these chiming in was billionaire and X proprietor Elon Musk, a Trump adviser.
“I’ve been towards a TikTok ban for a very long time, as a result of it goes towards freedom of speech,” Musk wrote in a publish. “That stated, the present scenario the place TikTok is allowed to function in America, however X isn’t allowed to function in China is unbalanced. One thing wants to vary.”
The app has been a lighting rod for controversy for months over concern that it’s a software for Chinese language spy operations. A ban on its use within the US received bipartisan assist in April — and a unanimous US Supreme Court docket signed off on the transfer to drag the plug on it.
However TikTok discovered an unlikely champion in Donald Trump, who is because of start his second time period within the White Home on Monday and stated he would signal an government order to offer the app a 90-day reprieve fo divest itself from China.
“We thank President Trump for offering the mandatory readability and assurance to our service suppliers that they’ll face no penalties offering TikTok to over 170 million Individuals and permitting over 7 million small companies to thrive,” TikTok Coverage wrote on X on Sunday.
TikTok stated the app has greater than 170 million customers within the US, and that about 7 million small companies within the nation depend on it to advertise their items and companies.
However not everybody on-line was celebrating the app’s fast — if maybe short-term — revival.
“I don’t learn about the remaining however personally I’m comfortable that TikTok is banned if something only for a few days so the mentally sick cease broadcasting their madness to the world,” an X consumer quipped.
