On Friday, the Supreme Court upheld a law passed last April that would have banned the app in the US unless its Chinese parent ByteDance sold the platform by Sunday, which it did not.
TikTok argued that the law violated free speech protections for its 170 million users in the country.
Following the ruling, TikTok Chief Executive Officer Zhou Zichu thanked Trump for his “commitment to work with us to find a solution.”
Mr. Chu is expected to attend Trump’s inauguration on Monday.
A few hours before to a social media platform that is going offlinecontent creators posted videos to say goodbye to their subscribers.
Creator Nicole Bloomgarden told the BBC that the absence of TikTok will lead to a significant reduction in earnings.
Another user, Erica Thompson, said that educational content on the platform would be the “biggest loss” for the community.
Earlier on Saturday, TikTok users received a message saying that the law “will force us to make our services temporarily unavailable. We are working to restore our service in the US as soon as possible.”
