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TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

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Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

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Post by xnx »

romwell wrote: post #79
mrfox321 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

even older people are starting to use it.

34, active user. It's the freshest thing out there. The closest thing to IRC/chatrooms of Web 1.0 by how it feels. Yes, beats even Discord. Like, remember the days where you could just go online and bump into random people, and it would be interesting ? And you could just throw an ugly homepage with your dog and "under construction" gifs without thinking twice, just because it's fun? That's what TikTok is like, but w…

Happy to run into people who recognize how delightful it is. I've seen so much variety if the videos on my fyp page (how to start a locomotive, how to move between high voltage transmission lines, woodworking tips, etc.. It's a amazing. I thoroughly enjoy Tiktok and don't feel like I've wasted time even after scrolling through it for an hour.

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

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Post by flycaliguy »

missedthecue wrote: post #95
rvz wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1B users will find out the hard way just like with every social network: Data breaches. Won’t be surprised to see it eventually happen.

What would even a total and complete data breach reveal about your average user though? That Jane Doe from Billings, Montana loves (has a high interaction rate with) short cat videos, squat exercise tutorials, and relationship-oriented TikToks? None of these 1B users upload their credit card info or social security numbers to the platform.

I don’t know how detailed their analytics are, but using TikTok does somewhat resemble some sort of psychological experiment with fast flying stimuli. It figured me out pretty quick.

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

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Post by killingtime74 »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #18
jdlyga wrote: 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?

I literally use a second phone to browse things like Tiktok for this reason

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

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Post by worrycue »

jdlyga wrote: 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.

When was YouTube ever the platform for short form content. YouTube has for the longest time pushed for videos of at least 10/15mins in length - else their algorithm will downgrade you.

It’s only recently in response to TikTok that they had YouTube Shorts, a “timeline” that occasionally shows up on your feed consisting of 1-3mins(?) videos.

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

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Post by subsection1h »

wongarsu wrote: post #56
periphrasis wrote: post #31

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Why would I want to watch short form video content? Genuinely curious here.

It can convey more information than the stationary images that dominate much of reddit, while taking less effort to consume than text (it's really hard to get people to engage with more than the headline in written content). TikTok is imho one of the closest approximations of a marketplace of ideas, or a penny-university. Every topic under the sun is talked about (even if TikTok tries to censor a bunch of topics), yo…

> taking less effort to consume than text (it's really hard to get people to engage with more than the headline in written content)

Why would someone for whom reading requires little effort want to engage with people for whom reading requires too much effort?

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

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Post by sureglymop »

BitwiseFool wrote: post #17

One of the most surprising things to me about TikTok is that it isn't a Bay Area startup. For the longest time every hot social media app/platform was American.

I think it's more interesting to me what a well executed marketing coup it was for them to go from Musically to TikTok. It's almost something that completely changed the platforms image... Musically when it was a thing was pretty much solely associated with underage people doing silly dances. Basically a platform for kids that most adults didn't even consider being a part of. But with TikTok that changed. It still has that same content of course but it is no longer limited to that and it no longer seems shady to most people.

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

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Post by prashantsengar »

naveen99 wrote: post #116
hidden-spyder wrote: post #115

TikTok has been banned in India for a while now. Imagine where it'd be if it wasn't.

Is their anything to replace it india, or is it back to cricket and Bollywood (the two industries it threatened ) ?

There are multiple different applications now, trying to be an alternative to TikTok. But none of them has consolidated the market.

Most used: IG Reels, MX Takatak (from MX player), Gaana shots. When TikTok was banned, there were dozens of apps trying to be the next big thing.

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

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Post by beckman466 »

jjeaff wrote: post #101
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That and the fact that the company is based in China and thus is fully beholden to any and everything that the Chinese government wants from them, without any checks and balances.

What about the US-based companies that are fully beholden to any and everything that the US government wants from them, without any checks and balances (as has been proven by Snowden, Assange, etc.)?

Please stop with the Sinophobia already

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/9/11/sinophobia-the-...

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