Tiktok

The video app TikTok has become the world’s most downloaded app.

A U.S. senator is introducing legislation that would ban government employees from using the social media app TikTok on their government devices.

The popularity of Chinese-owned video-sharing service TikTok continues to grow among young people in the United States.

TikTok is especially popular with teens and young adults.

TikTok lets users create and share short videos, many under 15 seconds.

The TikTok app offers sounds, parts of songs and special effects to create a video.

TikTok has even helped launch the careers of new music stars.

TikTok is considered a competitor to video-sharing app Snapchat and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.

Last year, TikTok was only second to WhatsApp in downloads from Apple and Google.

Major companies use TikTok to reach young people who use little or no traditional media.

How are these vaccine TikToks fooling so many people?

Imagine The Smiths or Joy Division making TikToks to promote their music. Think about Nick Cave or Joni Mitchell, and just imagine them negotiating with this bullshit.

“Are there any volunteers who would like to make their first video in front of everybody?” The first person who raised his hand was a dad in his late forties who had been a participant in our training school. I remember this guy because earlier in the training he had told me that his son had told him, “Dad, whatever you do, don’t start a TikTok.”

If you’ve never been on TikTok, we don’t recommend you start a TikTok just to promote your campaign.

Start a TikTok and share your ideas, join a club or group, or audition for the play, etc.

If you look at the podcasting sphere, which was a way of voices that had been pushed to the margins to carve out a space, now it’s just a content farm and one more space people have to participate in, like how brands have to have a TikTok, a presence in all these different mediums.

So, instead of just trusting that Spotify is always gonna do right by you, have a Spotify, have an Apple Music, Instagram, have a Facebook, have a TikTok, have a YouTube, have a merch site, have a Patreon.

We should start a TikTok for the drama department. […] We can do educational videos. Like, about the Poor Theatre, but with the dancing.

We wanted some press so we started a TikTok and other social media.

There’s nothing worse, after all, than male mutton dressed as lamb; or an old-style peacock dressed like a TikTok-ing Gen Z.

He got up and performed the first verse, and then walked through the door of the rotating, dioramic set — part Michel Gondry music video; part high school musical — and: It was BTS! Off they went: this black American whiz kid and these seven South Korean superstars TikTokked together.

It’s not often that one sees a mayor TikTok-ing and Instagramming such random activities, ranging from ice-cream making, to exercising, to a mini magic show.

Despite some unfortunate mixed messaging so far, government officials say they are well aware that there is an information war they need to win in order to beat Covid — and like these TikTok-ing doctors, they believe that social media is the key.

But thanks to pandemic-shuttered TikTok-ing teens, the anthem with an urgent pulse and message of longing for closeness reignited the Liverpool export’s profile.