From a TikTok user’s perspective, the social media platform seems to run on autopilot. You scroll your feeds, create content, and participate in Live sessions without ever “seeing” any involvement from the app’s employees. Behind the scenes, though, there are plenty of humans at work. For example, tens of thousands of people work as moderators, […]

The word “doubloon” may make you think of high school history class and 16th century Spain, or pirate treasure and modern-day movies like Pirates of the Caribbean. The doubloon was a gold coin minted in Spain and some of its colonies. They were worth about four dollars, a large sum at the time. (In today’s […]

TikTok’s growth as a social media platform has been unprecedented. It had just 133 million users when it launched internationally in 2017, almost all of them transferred over from the musical.ly app TikTok’s parent company had purchased. That number surpassed one million by 2020, and there are now more than two billion TikTok users. Advertisers […]

If someone gets caught littering or jaywalking, they’ll probably get off with a warning or a small fine. If someone is arrested by the police for murder, though, they’ll face much more serious penalties. Each suspect has only committed one offense, but the difference between those offenses is obvious. That tortured analogy may help explain […]

You don’t have to have an attention disorder to get distracted when watching TikTok videos. The menus running across the top of the screen (with selections like “Following,” “Shop,” and “For You”), the icons on the bottom (like “Home,” “Create,” and “For You”), and the right-hand icons for following, liking, commenting, and so on, can […]

Navigating the World of TikTok Links Are you eager to share your TikTok videos or profile with friends, family, or followers? Having a dedicated TikTok link can be incredibly handy. Whether you want to promote your content on other social media platforms or simply send it through messaging apps, obtaining a TikTok link is a […]