Earlier this year, TikTok introduced the ability for users to upload videos up to 10 minutes in length
US Senator Marco Rubio introduced bipartisan legislation to ban the Chinese social media platform TikTok from operating in the United States
The new feed option will appear as a lightbulb icon in the application and will roll out to select US users this month
Indiana's attorney general on Wednesday sued Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, claiming the video-sharing platform misleads its users, particularly children, about the level of inappropriate content and security of consumer information. Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita claimed in a complaint filed Wednesday that while the social video app says it is safe for users 13 years and older, the app contains salacious and inappropriate content" available to young users for unlimited periods of time, day and night, in an effort to line TikTok's pockets with billions of dollars from US consumers. A separate complaint from Rokita argues the app has users' sensitive and personal information but deceives consumers into believing that information is secure. At the very least, the company owes consumers the truth about the age-appropriateness of its content and the insecurity of the data it collects on users," Rokita said in a press release Wednesday. TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a .
Blackout challenge, also called the 'pass-out challenge', encourages kids to hold their breath until they fall unconscious, sometimes with the help of objects
Large platforms can also go into exponential decay if the network effect stops working in their favour, Maheshwari said
Chinese short-form video platform TikTok said that it would add about 3,000 engineers in locations across the world, including the US.
Confidence in the company has eroded so rapidly that, even before Musk's bankruptcy comments, some funds were offering to buy the loans for as little as 60 cents on the dollar
YouTube isn't the first service to bring short-form vertical videos to the TV screen. TikTok has been experimenting with smart TV interfaces for some time
Data could be used to conduct checks on aspects of the platform, including the performance of its algorithms
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Apple's policy change, disclosed this week, requires users and advertisers to make an in-app purchase when they pay to "boost" posts in apps like TikTok and Meta's Instagram
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Currently, people must be aged 16 or over to host a LIVE. From November 23, the minimum age will increase from 16 to 18
TikTok has also released Photo Mode, a new carousel format available on mobile for photo content that's ideal for sharing high-quality images on TikTok
Chinese short-form video app TikTok is still working on its plan to launch live shopping in the US, after reports surfaced that it has given up on the plans
Reels make up more than 20 per cent of the time people spend on Instagram, globally.
Microblogging platform Twitter has announced on its official Blog that it will begin rolling out a new way to experience videos on TikTok.
The move comes at a time when other social media apps like YouTube and Instagram have shifted their strategy and adopted TikTok like short video formats and UI for shorts and reels respectively
Global consumer spending on in-app purchases, premium apps, and subscriptions on Apple App Store, Google Play declined by 4.8% (year-over-year) to $31.6 billion in Q3, a new report showed on Friday.