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 […]

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 […]