Chaos for teenagers and locked-down office workers as TikTok and Zoom go down across Australia

  • Video conferencing and social media platform have crashed across Australia
  • More than 1,100 users were unable to access TikTok at 9am on Monday morning
  • Another 1,721 users could not connect to Zoom virtual meetings at same time
  • Office employees forced to work from home were met with error messages  

By Charlie Coë For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 00:10 BST, 9 August 2021 | Updated: 01:03 BST, 9 August 2021

TikTok and Zoom have crashed across Australia with thousands of users reporting problems creating videos and joining conferences.

More than 1,100 Australian users reported being unable to access the viral video platform about 9am on Monday morning.

Outage monitoring service Downdetector said another 1,721 users could not connect to Zoom at the same time.

Office workers and students forced to work from home in Melbourne and Sydney due to Covid-19 outbreaks said they encountered error messages while trying to log on to Zoom for virtual meetings and classes.

Zoom and TikTok have crashed across Australia with thousands of users reporting problems creating videos and joining conferences (file image of a worker on a Zoom call)

Zoom and TikTok have crashed across Australia with thousands of users reporting problems creating videos and joining conferences (file image of a worker on a Zoom call)

‘We are trying to do a Zoom but it keeps saying an error has occurred,’ one school student reported.

Users said they were faced with messages including ‘error’ and ‘502 Bad Gateway’ when trying to log into video calls on the website.

‘My family member can use Zoom in the same house but I can’t,’ another said.

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