The TikTok, Telegram, and 1xBet websites are prohibited from accessing the country’s internet, according to an order from Somalia’s Ministry of Communications and Technology. Jama Hassan Khalif, the minister of communications and technology, issued the directive in a statement on Sunday, citing security and counterterrorism as justifications. The statement said that the safety and security…
“The first reports about the breach of TikTok appeared a few days ago. On the Breach Forums message board, an unknown user posted what was claimed to be screenshots from database tables with TikTok breach. As the user claims, they have stolen 2 billion database records, which could potentially affect an enormous amount of TikTok users. Some…
TikTok, a video streaming platform, has added new features to assist users to control their screen time, including a new and easily available in-app dashboard tool that shows users the social app’s usage statistics. This isn’t the first time the social media platform has attempted to boost its members’ digital well-being by assisting them with…
TikTok has now announced the launch of SoundOn, its own distribution platform designed to help musicians build a career and a fanbase. According to the SoundOn website, it is “an all-in-one marketing and distribution platform, helping you build a career and find new fans through TikTok, exclusive partners (Resso, CapCut), and on other digital streaming…
YouTube and TikTok, according to a recent study published by mobile marketing company URL Genius, track users’ personal data more than any other social media app. However, while YouTube collects your personal data primarily for the purpose of serving you more relevant ads, TikTok allows third-party trackers to collect your data – “and from there,…
Many people are now looking for love on dating apps like Tinder and Bumble, and the majority of them end up exhausted or burned out as a result. As a result, a few of the industry’s newest matchmakers have chosen to take matters into their own hands. They’re using Twitter and TikTok, as well as…
App for making short videos Triller will go public through a reverse merger with video-tech firm SeaChange International, the two companies announced on Wednesday. The combined entity will be worth around $5 billion. The proposed merger has been approved by the boards of both companies, and the transaction is expected to close in the first…
TikTok is truly unstoppable: the video-sharing platform has surpassed Google to become the most popular website in the world, according to Cloudflare’s 2021 Year in Review internet traffic rankings. TikTok made Cloudflare’s top ten list last year, ranking seventh in popularity behind Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, and Amazon’s.coms. Aside from TikTok’s surge to the…
According to a new forecast, TikTok is the world’s third-largest social network, trailing only Facebook and Instagram. Insider Intelligence — the firm formerly known as eMarketer — predicts that TikTok will reach 755.0 million monthly users in 2022, after growing by 59.8 percent in 2020 and 40.8 percent in 2021 in its first forecast on…
According to the latest Sensor Tower report, global consumer spending on apps is expected to reach $133 billion in 2021. This implies a 19.7 percent year-over-year (YoY) increase from $111.1 billion in 2020, nearly matching the 21 percent YoY increase in consumer spending in 2019. TikTok will be the most profitable app in the world…
Twitter announced today that it is testing a feature that will transform its in-app explore page into a TikTok-style video feed, complete with a “For You” tab. This feature is currently being tested on both Android and iOS for users in select countries who use Twitter in English. “We’re testing out a revamped, more personalized…
TikTok has developed a bad reputation for harboring dangerous viral “challenges” in its application, which in the worst case, have resulted in serious injury or death, as in the case of the blackout challenge that prompted Italian regulators to take action. against the social network to remove underage users. More recently, the app has made…
The NFT space has had quite the year, and while it can be difficult to separate the billions of dollars in crypto speculation from the potential infrastructure shifts, plenty of mainstream tech companies are dipping their toes into the space and signaling future interest. This time it’s TikTok’s turn. The fast-growing social media platform, which…
TikTok is expanding its investment in e-commerce. Earlier this year, the video platform began piloting TikTok Shopping in the U.S., U.K. and Canada, in partnership with Shopify. The deal allowed Shopify merchants with a TikTok For Business account to add a Shopping tab to their TikTok profiles and sync their product catalogs to the app to create…
Tiktok announced in a blog post that it now has more than one billion monthly active users throughout the world, making it the only non-Facebook or Google-owned social networking app to do so. Despite an attempt by former President Donald Trump’s government last year to shut down Tiktok in the United States, the app’s popularity…
Playbyte’s new app aims to become the ‘TikTok for games’ Written by Sarah Perez A startup called Playbyte wants to become the TikTok for games. The company’s newly launched iOS app offers tools that allow users to make and share simple games on their phone, as well as a vertically scrollable, fullscreen feed where you can play the games…
The eighth natural wonder of the world is getting a partnership with TikTok Written by Conrad Onyango Kenya is turning to a global youth audience to showcase the eighth natural wonder of the world—the great wildebeest migration—as Africa goes all out to ramp up international tourism numbers. The east African country’s tourism board on Aug. 24 announced…
TikTok and Shopify have teamed up to allow users to shop directly from the app Shopify, a Canadian e-commerce company, said that it is collaborating with TikTok on a feature that would allow users to buy directly from the social media app. For the first time ever, Shopify merchants with a TikTok business account will…