Anatomy of Tik Tok, the Viral Video App from China's Bytedance
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#2oh hey, I can download this app in the US app store now. that's a pretty recent change
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#3They left off the part that gets brought up anytime someone asks what musical.ly is/was. Which is an app filled with young teens being advertised to old men. I haven't used the app yet, I was interested in checking it out and maybe I'll play around with it but every discuss about tiktok and musical.ly comes back to it just being a weird platform that seems to exploit young teens and showcase the videos to old men.
Here's a video someone made recently explaining it better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmphkNDosg
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#4I've been seeing this weird multicolored icon all around in imgur and reddit for some time now, but I never knew it was Bytedance (or even knew this company existed.) Never cared enough to do a reverse image search but it always amazed me that it was all over the place.
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#6They left off the part that gets brought up anytime someone asks what musical.ly is/was. Which is an app filled with young teens being advertised to old men. I haven't used the app yet, I was interested in checking it out and maybe I'll play around with it but every discuss about tiktok and musical.ly comes back to it just being a weird platform that seems to exploit young teens and showcase the videos to old men. He…
Can you please explain it yourself because flicking through that 12 minute video he just seems to be making fun of it.
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#7They left off the part that gets brought up anytime someone asks what musical.ly is/was. Which is an app filled with young teens being advertised to old men. I haven't used the app yet, I was interested in checking it out and maybe I'll play around with it but every discuss about tiktok and musical.ly comes back to it just being a weird platform that seems to exploit young teens and showcase the videos to old men. He…
My niece told me last year that it was THE app of her school.
Re: Anatomy of Tik Tok, the Viral Video App from China's Bytedance
#8I've been seeing this weird multicolored icon all around in imgur and reddit for some time now, but I never knew it was Bytedance (or even knew this company existed.) Never cared enough to do a reverse image search but it always amazed me that it was all over the place.
It’s absolutely viral and addicting here in China, as well as the news aggreation app ‘Jinri Toutiao’(Toutiao.com) from the same company. These apps could easily kill a large amount of time and the recommendation system behind is the magical sauce imho.
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#9oh hey, I can download this app in the US app store now. that's a pretty recent change
They acquired Music.ly's users into their app, which I think kick-started their non-China userbase ...
Re: Anatomy of Tik Tok, the Viral Video App from China's Bytedance
#10oh hey, I can download this app in the US app store now. that's a pretty recent change
They acquired Music.ly's users into their app, which I think kick-started their non-China userbase ...
The first paragraph of the article confirms:
> Edit Notes: Chinese app company Bytedance acquired Musical.ly for nearly $1 billion in November 2017. Last week, it shut down Musical.ly and migrated all its users and content to Tik Tok, another short video app it owns. Musical.ly was incredibly popular in India with over 15 million users in the country. With the migration, Bytedance has created a large user base in the country.