TikTok quickly became a top-five social media platform after it became available in the Western world in the late 2010s. It’s widely known as an app created in China by Zhang Yiming, who owns the company ByteDance. However, the story isn’t quite that simple. Where Did TikTok Come From? A different Chinese firm founded by […]

You might guess that the users with the largest fan bases on TikTok are all household names —famous actors, musicians, or pro athletes. You’d be wrong. Don’t misunderstand; many of the world’s biggest celebrities have massive presences on the social media platform. For example. The Rock has almost 80 million TikTok followers and BTS has […]

Will Smith has 80 million fans on TikTok. He probably doesn’t care who bookmarks his videos on the social media platform. That’s also likely to be true for influencers and other extremely popular content creators. The story is different for many TikTok users with small accounts, though. It’s a compliment when someone likes your TikTok […]

One of the most frustrating aspects of modern-day life can be summed up in one word: passwords. Sure, third-party authentication may come close on the frustration scale, but the sheer number of passwords we all have to remember or save has become overwhelming. It’s even worse to keep track of them all when websites or […]

Many inexperienced TikTok users think that clicking “favorite” (the flag in the right-hand column on TikTok posts) saves a video they like to their device. It doesn’t. Unless you specifically choose to download a video to your phone, tablet, or computer, anything you “save” on TikTok remains on the social media platform. Your favorites are […]

TikTok users who shoot content in one take, often as a monologue talking directly to their phone camera, usually don’t have much work to do once they’ve finished recording. They may want to add a filter or an effect to their TikTok video, but then they’re ready to add a caption and hashtags, and upload […]