TikTok, the world-renowned addictive social media application by Chinese developer ByteDance, seems to be moving toward the gaming industry. Is it too much to ask that the platform make a concrete decision as to whether it wants to pursue gaming or not?
TikTok has been striving to make its platform a healthier place for young members. To this end, it’s letting you indicate that your broadcast is for adults only. Teenagers under 18 years old won’t see the feed appear on the FYP or Live page. It will protect them from seeing behavior or activities inappropriate for their age.
The popular short-form video sharing platform, TikTok, is releasing an interesting new feature. While the social media platform developers mentioned the feature earlier this year, it is now being released to the public. The new dislike button will soon appear on everyone’s TikTok, but how will it work?
ByteDance may have bitten off more than it can chew, and this realization is now impacting hundreds of employees in China. The TikTok parent company started investing in mobile game development a few months ago. However, it’s had to reduce employees in two studios while doing some internal shuffling.
TikTok has been at the eye of a storm recently as politicians have been criticizing its ties to the Chinese government. Privacy is at the heart of this matter, which means this latest story will cause headaches for those at TikTok headquarters as a hacker group called “AgainstTheWest” has claimed that it has stolen user data from TikTok’s servers. TikTok has denied that a breach of sensitive data has taken place, so we are going to examine the story in a little more detail to help you understand what is going on.
TikTok is a hot topic these days with politicians all over the Western World frothing at the mouth at the possibility of the Chinese app getting its hands on their citizens’ data. There are other security concerns that need to be taken seriously, however, such as the more traditional cybersecurity issues we regularly report on here at Softonic. Today we have news of a vulnerability in the TikTok app for Android that has been allowing attackers to secretly access users’ data. Let’s go through the details now:
The U.S mid-term elections are only a few months away, which means we’re about to hear and see all about it on social media platforms. With this in mind, TikTok has reminded everyone that it won’t permit paid political ads. More specifically, it will ban influencers and content creators from posting similar content in favor of politicians with paid ads.
Text-to-image AI is all the rage right now with both Google and Meta pushing out their own versions on top of the OpenAI’s impressive DALL-E offerings. Unfortunately, however, it can be difficult for the average internet user to gain access to the tools to give them a try. A new TikTok filter looks set to change that though. Let’s check it out.
Moderating social media posts is a tough gig. When you are dealing with the population of an entire planet, it is certain that some people are going to post some of the most abhorrent material imaginable. It is the job of the moderator to protect the regular users from this material by bringing it down before anybody gets a chance to see it. This, however, brings with it its own set of problems and some TikTok moderators have been raising serious concerns. Let’s take a look at this in a bit more detail.
While TikTok launched as a platform for short videos, it seems today’s teenagers are using it as a search engine. When Gen Z users want to know where the best local clubs are or what music is trending, they’re no longer relying on Google or its Maps tool. Instead, they’re looking at what everyone else is recommending on TikTok and Instagram.
More than any other app or website right now, even Google, TikTok is absolutely killing it. TikTok trends get so big and rag in so many people that their effects often spill out into the real world, such as with some people crediting the video-sharing app for the success of the new Minions movie, thanks to its Dress up for Minions trend. The flip of this, however, is that all of this leads to a lot of data flowing through TikTok’s servers and this has some governments worried.
Recently we’ve covered how two of the major social networks have made moves to incorporate elements of TikTok’s user interface into their own. Instagram announced it wanted to offer a more immersive experience while Twitter’s new Explore tab looks exactly like the TikTok feed. Well, it looks like TikTok has not been taking all that lying down as we are now getting details of a TikTok update that will make it even more immersive.
These days, TikTok is the biggest app in the world. TikTok.com is even bigger than Google and the TikTok app was the most downloaded app in the first quarter of 2022, which saw it pass a whopping 3.5 billion all-time downloads. With such popularity then, it is no wonder that recently we’ve seen apps like Twitter and Instagram looking to copy TikTok features. Now, though, it looks like TikTok might be looking to add some more conventional social network features.
According to Sensor Tower’s report on Q1 2022’s top mobile apps, TikTok was the most downloaded app worldwide from January to March 2022—surpassing 3.5 billion all-time downloads from last year’s Q1. Currently, it’s the first app not owned by tech giant Meta to break that record.
Popular short-form video app Tiktok has recently launched SoundOn, its all-in-one platform for music creators. With it, artists and record labels can directly upload their music onto TikTok and distribute it to other streaming services—all while being paid royalties.
TikTok has been increasing its maximum video length. At the start, the app only allowed one-minute video uploads by users. Then in July 2021, they increased the allowed video length to three minutes. Since the release, they’ve also experimented with longer times, up to five minutes. But the latest update released on Monday surpasses even that.
TikTok, formerly known as Musical.ly, is a fast-growing video sharing platform. Ever since the Chinese firm Bytedance took over in 2017, we can’t stop hearing about it. Now that you’re sure it’s not being banned anytime soon, we have another chance to learn about this Vine-type video app.