There are now 2+ billion TikTok users. The world’s population is now more than eight billion. Does that mean that about 25% of everyone in the world, including children, babies, and senior citizens, has a TikTok presence? Not quite. Statistics show that 27% of the global population who are online have a TikTok account, but […]

TikTok soared to popularity in the late 2010s — and remains immensely popular today — primarily because of the short and entertaining videos that most TikTok users post. Most people don’t think of the social media platform as somewhere they can show off great pictures, but it’s simple to put your photographic skills on display […]

You probably couldn’t convince TikTok’s two billion users that the app is “bad.” However, there’s been a constant negative drumbeat from TikTok critics ever since it launched in the Western hemisphere in the late 2010s, and the US government’s recent attempts to ban or force the sale of the social media platform has triggered more […]

Does your phone seem to be running slower and slower? That’s not uncommon for TikTok users and those on other video-intensive social media platforms, particularly if the users spend lots of time on the apps or are prodigious content creators. And TikTok is notorious for causing issues over time. The app itself takes up storage […]

The Internet has made life more convenient in many ways, but it’s easy to forget that our online presence is at the mercy of technology and computer algorithms. A system failure somewhere in the world — or an arbitrary rule set by a programmer — can block you from doing what you want to do […]

Direct messaging isn’t as big a deal on TikTok as it is on many other social media platforms. People who want to DM with friends (and new friends) all day and night are much more likely to be found on WhatsApp, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, and quite a few other popular apps. Even so, more than […]