TikTok Starts Working For US Users After Trump Promises To Stall A Ban

In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service. 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,

read a statement TikTok posted on social media platform X

As a result of President Trump's efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.!”

the message to the app's users read

I think that myself, like many others, have gained a lot of disdain for the U.S. government,

said Fasulo, who has about 400,000 followers

I think back to when Elon bought Twitter and how dramatically it shifted overall sentiment and how people interacted on the app. So that gives me a lot of concern,

said Kelly Sites, 38, referring to billionaire Elon Musk's purchase of the social media site now known as X

I think that this is a very sad time in history,

said Richard "Chuck" Fasulo, 37, a mechanic and auto-influencer from Duchess County, New York

I would choose a political stunt over losing TikTok forever,

Charlotte Warren, 31, a dating and relationships content creator based in Austin, Texas, told Reuters

I don't want the magic of the algorithm to change,

said Sites, a part-time content creator based in Kansas City, Kansas

TikTok is the hub of beauty nowadays. It used to be YouTube, then it was Instagram, and now it is TikTok,

Halliday said

Trump's stand indicates that TikTok still has a chance to seek a better solution to ensure its legal operation in the US through negotiation, cooperation or other innovative methods. It is also a recognition of TikTok's immense user base and commercial value,

Zhu said

We go where our community is and right now that includes TikTok. If they shift to other platforms in the future, we'll be right there with them,

Kory Marchisotto, chief marketing officer at e.l.f. Beauty, said in a statement to Reuters

We have pretty much stayed viral since the beginning of the TikTok shop launch last year,

said Verzwyvelt

There's just no way you can ruin that many jobs, livelihoods, careers, advertising because you're afraid of Chinese disinformation,

Portnoy said

Every client has known about this possibility of TikTok going away since April of 2024, so everybody has done some preparation,

Boykiv said

These TikTok shops are mass 'clearancing' their products in anticipation of the ban, so I'm linking some clearance products that I love for skin care,

one user told her 65,000 followers

Why am I joining @tiktok_us just as the government ban begins? Because I don't like being told what to do,

he wrote

And for all of those concerns that people were saying that TikTok is going to be used as a propaganda tool by the Chinese, understand they’re using it as a propaganda tool for the right,

she added

We are on the eve of an authoritarian administration,

she said

With our approval, it is worth hundreds of billions of dollars - maybe trillions

he wrote on Truth Social on Sunday morning

Tom Cottonsenator

Now that the law has taken effect, there is no legal basis for any kind of 'extension' of its effective date. For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law's qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China."

Republican senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts said in a joint statement

This is a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship,

said Chew