Teigen’s remarks coincided with the mourning of TikTok by Kourtney Kardashian, Lizzo, and Heidi Montag before to the platform’s temporary outage on Saturday night. The Chinese-owned app,
Whose parent company, ByteDance, had previously been given until January 19 to sell its US business, was barred from being used by over 170 million Americans during the closure.
“Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now,” was one of the messages that users saw. We regret having to temporarily suspend our services due.
To a U.S. legislation that would prohibit TikTok on January 19. By Sunday morning, however, the app was operational once again.
TikTok acknowledged that they were working to restore service to American users and applauded President-elect Donald Trump, who will take office on Monday.
