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Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by sanxiyn »

slipheen wrote: post #64

I think it's a clever play. It would help address the spyware concern by moving it to a US company, and give them a better foothold in Social Networking than Linked-in provides. I'd have a few concerns about if MS can keep it growing- For one, I worry that Microsoft may mismanage it, similar to how they treated Skype. We saw Yahoo buy many reasonable smaller social networks (Flickr, Delicious, Tumblr) and was never a…

TikTok is not a "youth-based social network". It is more similar to YouTube, with content creator ecosystem and advertisement profit sharing and all.

Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by bdcravens »

fermienrico wrote: post #70

Person confirming this: https://twitter.com/CGasparino?s=21 I don’t know how reputable the source is.

Seems to have a solid reputation and experience.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/person/g/charles-gasparino

He doesn't say the source, only reports it, so not sure what the issue is here.

Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

ssully wrote: post #66
m0xte wrote: post #50

TikTok is politically poisonous. Why would they?!?

Because it's incredibly popular. I think it's a bad idea because I think TicTok is only a year or two away from their peak until another app catches the zeitgeist.

MySpace was incredibly popular. Now it's used by the underbelly of society.

Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by noarchy »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #15

Hopefully it will be rebranded MikMok or ZuneZok. This seems like a dumb move, why would MS want to get tied up in the horrors of social media when they have such a profitable empire. They couldn’t possibly tie in MicMok to Office 365 and have anything good come from it.

>This seems like a dumb move, why would MS want to get tied up in the horrors of social media when they have such a profitable empire.

They bought LinkedIn, which increasingly resembles a niche social media for professionals, all the way down to a news feed that is increasingly filled with motivational junk

Then there's Github, which used to advertise itself as "social coding".

Microsoft has done plenty already to get their foot in the door of social media.

Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by slipheen »

sanxiyn wrote: post #71
slipheen wrote: post #64

I think it's a clever play. It would help address the spyware concern by moving it to a US company, and give them a better foothold in Social Networking than Linked-in provides. I'd have a few concerns about if MS can keep it growing- For one, I worry that Microsoft may mismanage it, similar to how they treated Skype. We saw Yahoo buy many reasonable smaller social networks (Flickr, Delicious, Tumblr) and was never a…

TikTok is not a "youth-based social network". It is more similar to YouTube, with content creator ecosystem and advertisement profit sharing and all.

From https://www.omnicoreagency.com/tiktok-statistics/

> 41 percent of TikTok users are aged between 16 and 24.

That seems rather youth-heavy when compared to Facebook (Timeline), Twitter, YouTube, Instagram.

Nothing inherently wrong with that, but it does come with risks.

Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by thisisnico »

sanxiyn wrote: post #71
slipheen wrote: post #64

I think it's a clever play. It would help address the spyware concern by moving it to a US company, and give them a better foothold in Social Networking than Linked-in provides. I'd have a few concerns about if MS can keep it growing- For one, I worry that Microsoft may mismanage it, similar to how they treated Skype. We saw Yahoo buy many reasonable smaller social networks (Flickr, Delicious, Tumblr) and was never a…

TikTok is not a "youth-based social network". It is more similar to YouTube, with content creator ecosystem and advertisement profit sharing and all.

It's growing on everyone, all ages.
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