TikTok has suffered a worldwide outage that's disrupting millions of people trying to watch videos on the app.

The technical issues started around 4:30pm ET and quickly led to thousands of people complaining about the outage online.

Some users noted that the social media platform was claiming that the issues were tied to the users' internet connection, but the connections were actually stable.

'TitTok blaming it on me saying I [have] no internet,' one person wrote in the outage tracking site Downdetector.

'I'm still getting notifications from my videos but can't see my profile or my videos,' another TikTok user added.

The biggest outages have been reported in New York, with other major trouble spots popping up in Washington DC, Houston, and Seattle.

As the outage stretched for more than an hour, plenty of faithful TikTok users flocked to other platforms to voice their sadness over the social media blackout.

'TikTok not working feels like having no internet,' one person wrote on X.

Other TikTok users have reported that the app came back momentarily around 5:20pm ET, but it quickly went down again.

'I can scroll for like 2 seconds then it doesn't let me,' one TikTok user reported.

Another person in Atlanta added that the app was working for about five minutes before then shut down again.

TikTok has not addressed the worldwide outage on their accounts on other social platforms. 

'It seems like they're not talking about it at all, and I don't even see creators talking about it or noticing it,' one person said on Downdetector.

TikTok allows users to create and share short-form videos, typically 15 to 60 seconds long.

Launched in 2016 by ByteDance, a Chinese company, it has over one billion monthly active users globally.

Although it's popular among Gen Z and younger generations, TikTok has faced scrutiny over data privacy and content moderation.

In the US, lawmakers have attempted to ban TikTok over national security concerns stemming from ByteDance's alleged ties to the Chinese government.