It’s not a big deal. It’s just annoying if you’re in a hurry. You might occasionally open the TikTok app to check your notifications or spend a few minutes scrolling through your feed — and find that you’ve been logged out of your account. Don’t worry; you probably didn’t do anything wrong. It’s possible that […]

Video challenges, Duets and Stitches, Live streams — they’re just some of the features that have made TikTok the social media platform of choice for younger users. One other feature of the platform has been even more important to that landmark success, though: the TikTok algorithms. Those groundbreaking computerized rules and systems track every TikTok […]

Virtually everyone is familiar with emojis. They were first created in the late 1990s. In fact, many readers probably used emojis’ predecessors, “emoticons,” long before that. Text-based symbols like “:)” and “:(” have been in common use since the early days of personal computing and online messageboards. Emojis quickly became popular once they were widely […]

It was so much easier in the good old days. Before we all had social apps on our phones, we were on desktop computers or laptops. When we saw something online that we wanted to share via email with a friend or relative, or use in a document, we just had to right-click on the […]

If you’re not a regular viewer of TikTok Live streams, you may never have heard of TikTok coins. They can be purchased in the Live sessions, directly through your TikTok profile page, on the platform’s website, or from third-party sellers. However, they can’t be exchanged by individual users on the social media platform, they can’t […]

Some of the mysterious terms, abbreviations, and acronyms commonly used on TikTok are particularly baffling because they have more than one meaning. For example, one TikTok user might say that someone is “preening” to imply that they’re obsessively concerned with perfecting and showing off their appearance, while another might call a preteen who dresses and […]