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Re: TikTok Shop

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Post by fassssst » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 1:29 PM UTC

Late stage capitalism via China. Didn’t see that one coming.

Re: TikTok Shop

#12

Post by mrighele » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 1:35 PM UTC

robtaylor wrote: post #4

A 22.5meg .png image on that page. How?

A 11208 × 7072 picture ! There another one of similar size (but of "only" 10+ MB)

Re: TikTok Shop

#13

Post by PurpleRamen » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 1:35 PM UTC

piva00 wrote: post #5

Is TikTok trying to become Musk's vision for X? Social media, music, shopping, I sense a finance branch is soon to follow...

No, TikTok is just bringing the features from Chinese platforms to the west. And so does Elon too.

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Post by matt3210 » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 1:38 PM UTC

Honestly, every time I get on TikTok, it degenerates into thirst traps and OF adverts. I explicitly block these creators and never click like in any of these themes, but the algorithm thinks I want to see that stuff no matter how much I try to tell it that I don’t.

Re: TikTok Shop

#15

Post by begrid » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 1:42 PM UTC

blamazon wrote: post #10

For comparison, Amazon has been doing in-video shopping for some time, [1] although the result feels to me more like a panoply of cable television home shopping networks, than organic social discovery platform. [1]: http://amazon.com/live

And Aliexpress mobile app has something simmilar too; tiktok-like videos that you scroll through and they promote their products

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Post by WhereIsTheTruth » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 1:43 PM UTC

piva00 wrote: post #5

Is TikTok trying to become Musk's vision for X? Social media, music, shopping, I sense a finance branch is soon to follow...

How come people are coming up to this erroneous conclusion?

Twitter has no chance, it's too politized, it doesn't attract the youth

Is it because the press likes to demonize TikTok so people never heard of WeChat?

Musk literally said he wants to copy WeChat

https://streamable.com/m7c2hh

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#17

Post by ketchupdebugger » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 1:45 PM UTC

piva00 wrote: post #5

Is TikTok trying to become Musk's vision for X? Social media, music, shopping, I sense a finance branch is soon to follow...

Instagram already has shopping, messaging, social media etc. I think this is more just getting parity to existing competitors.

Re: TikTok Shop

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Post by bilekas » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 1:48 PM UTC

PurpleRamen wrote: post #13

piva00 wrote: post #5

Is TikTok trying to become Musk's vision for X? Social media, music, shopping, I sense a finance branch is soon to follow...

No, TikTok is just bringing the features from Chinese platforms to the west. And so does Elon too.

Isn't the parent company of TikTok Chinese ? If so, wouldn't it make the business model the natural progression ?

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#19

Post by bilekas » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 1:49 PM UTC

menshiki wrote: post #6

They assumed that if it works in China, it will work in the US as well.

I don't know if anyone needs to assume selling things would work in the US market to be fair..

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#20

Post by KronisLV » Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 1:53 PM UTC

robtaylor wrote: post #4

A 22.5meg .png image on that page. How?

> A 22.5meg .png image on that page. How?

The page in total is like 36 MB: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/newsroom.tiktok.com/ZezM7two/

I don't think I've ever seen a page that large, outside of streaming videos and such. What an interesting time, especially because this could have been avoided by downscaling two images to fit the actual plausible display sizes.