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TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

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Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#11
post #5

How? I know exactly zero people who uses it. However, I do see TikTok videos on Instagram and Facebook all the time.

I’m very surprised by this number as well. It must be young kids. I don’t know a single TikTok user either (and I don’t have kids).

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#14
TikTok has definitely become the platform for short form video content. It used to be YouTube, but it's since matured into a place to watch more well produced videos in the 20 minute range. If you haven't given TikTok a chance, try it out.

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#15
post #4

Nice. I wonder what kind of social media is gonna grow next to tiktok/fb/insta

If we extrapolate the trend, I'm imagining something like bladerunner 2049's baseline test:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrP-_T-h9YM

The bare minimum of high velocity: Content, Query Emotional Response, Receive Emotional Response, Repeat

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#16
Am I the only one who sees it as a problem that US and European companies can't really work on China market, but they leave their markets wide open for Chinese companies?

Like, no company is allowed in US/Europe if it does not recognize Taiwan as an independent state? Isn't it how conforming to local rules and regulations should work?

UPD: clarification due to people mentioning Mercedes, etc: my comment was mostly directed at internet companies.

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#18
post #14

TikTok has definitely become the platform for short form video content. It used to be YouTube, but it's since matured into a place to watch more well produced videos in the 20 minute range. If you haven't given TikTok a chance, try it out.

Wasn’t the tiktok app lambasted for being terribly intrusive and data-collecty?

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#19

Am I the only one who sees it as a problem that US and European companies can't really work on China market, but they leave their markets wide open for Chinese companies? Like, no company is allowed in US/Europe if it does not recognize Taiwan as an independent state? Isn't it how conforming to local rules and regulations should work? UPD: clarification due to people mentioning Mercedes, etc: my comment was mostly di…

apple, bmw, mercedes benz, ikea would like a word with you

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#20

Shows how great alibaba's cloud is It's sad they recently got forced to use something else in the west, i bet that was one of the conditions to avoid getting banned in the west ;) That's why we can't have nice things Looks like the american's administration don't want cloud competition globally, reminds me of Alstom's story, and recently OVH 'fires', sort of - https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Caixin/TikTok-owner-Byt…

Most probably they'd use 0 cloud native services and everything run as a custom stack in bounce of compute instances with auto scaling and load balancer in front (or maybe K8, I'm oversimplifing)

Honestly, it shows that perhaps they can migrate the stack easily everywhere else (and indeed they did in the west).

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