US TikTok users went nuts Sunday over the controversial app’s quick return from the dead.
Devotees of the Chinese-run social-media platform wasted no time celebrating the ban reprieve orchestrated by President-elect Donald Trump just hours after the platform went dark.
“Back in action,” a user crowed on X after the service was reactivated. “It was a terrible sleepover over Instagram but thanks for hosting us.”
Other people wrote they were shocked how quickly the app was up and running again.
“The whiplash I’m getting from TikTok disappearing only for it to be back now? Insane,” an X user wrote. “I knew it would happen, but still lol”
Another person posted, “TikTok has resurrected” — while others simply said, “Back babyyyy!”
Among those chiming in was billionaire and X owner Elon Musk, a Trump adviser.
“I have been against a TikTok ban for a long time, because it goes against freedom of speech,” Musk wrote in a post. “That said, the current situation where TikTok is allowed to operate in America, but X is not allowed to operate in China is unbalanced. Something needs to change.”
The app has been a lighting rod for controversy for months over concern that it is a tool for Chinese spy operations. A ban on its use in the US won bipartisan support in April — and a unanimous US Supreme Court signed off on the move to pull the plug on it.
But TikTok found an unlikely champion in Donald Trump, who is due to begin his second term in the White House on Monday and said he would sign an executive order to give the app a 90-day reprieve fo divest itself from China.
“We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive,” TikTok Policy wrote on X on Sunday.
TikTok said the app has more than 170 million users in the US, and that about 7 million small businesses in the country rely on it to promote their goods and services.
But not everyone online was celebrating the app’s quick — if perhaps temporary — revival.
“I don’t know about the rest but personally I’m happy that TikTok is banned if anything just for a couple of days so the mentally ill stop broadcasting their insanity to the world,” an X user quipped.
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