Eight months after starting to test a new AR development tool called Effect House, TikTok is making it available to all users. Here’s how this function plans to take “community-inspired creativity to the next level.”
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Today, TikTok announced its new Library feature will include an integration with GIPHY clips (GIFs with sound); Library allows users to easily grab clips and make them part of their own videos. The addition of GIPHY clips brings new life to content so users can take their videos to the next level.
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As reported by TechCrunch, TikTok is testing a “watch history” feature with select users. The watch history feature allows TikTok users to locate videos previously recommended on their “For You” page – with the amount of new content constantly joining the platform, it’s easy to accidentally refresh before getting a chance to like a video.
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A growing number of tech giants are applying Russian sanctions of the digital kind in response to the unprovoked attack on Ukraine. Update: Apple subsequently announced its own responses.
Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok are all limiting access to two Russian media brands, Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik …
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After testing a new max length for TikTok videos, the Chinese app just announced it’s rolling out the ability for users to upload up to 10 minutes of content in a single post. This is the first major change of the app since it adopted three minutes long videos last July.
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Last year, TikTok announced it will be extending the maximum length of its videos from one to three minutes. Since August, the social media giant has been conducting extensive beta testing of five-minute videos to various groups of users. There have even been tests of 10-minute videos with small groups.
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TikTok age restrictions for mature content are on the way, says the company, but it is at an early stage of figuring out exactly how to do it …
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Apple is not only a hugely valuable company, but it’s also the world’s most valuable brand – a title it lost for five years before winning back the top slot last year and retaining it this year.
The annual Brand Finance Global 500 index sets out to calculate the value of just the brand, distinct from the value of the company…
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If you’ve been trying unsuccessfully to access Twitter or TikTok this Thursday night, you’re not alone. Both social networks are currently down for some users around the world.
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Instagram and TikTok continue to compete with each other in near-tandem. The same week that Instagram announced it has started to test a paid subscriptions feature with certain creators, TikTok has now confirmed that it, too, is testing a similar feature.
Meanwhile, Instagram is expanding its TikTok-style Remix feature to all videos on the platform. Head below for your daily dose of social media back and forth…
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TikTok last year announced its own Stories feature, which is quite similar to Snapchat and Instagram Stories. Although TikTok Stories aren’t yet available to all users, the social network has been experimenting with a new design that integrates Stories with its main video feed.
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The popular social network TikTok is known for its viral short videos, but it has never offered an easy way to let users repost content to others. Now it seems that this is about to change as TikTok has been testing a new “Repost” button for users to share TikTok videos on their profiles.
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For reasons unbeknownst to users, the ability to organize your favorite videos (into what TikTok calls “Collections”) is available to some, was taken away from others, and for the rest of us, the “Collections” feature simply never existed. TikTok users have been lamenting over the loss of – or the inability to – organize their favorite videos for months, and we all want the ability to put our favorite videos where they belong.
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TikTok is well known as a social network for short videos, but what if someone told you that TikTok is also a restaurant? That’s exactly what the company is about to become in the US with the announcement of TikTok Kitchen, which will take viral food videos to the next level with a food delivery service.
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An alleged new trend on TikTok is causing schools across the United States to close and cancel classes for today, Friday, December 17. As reported by The Verge, school districts in California, Texas, Minnesota, and Missouri have all said they plan to close on Friday due to threats of violence being made on TikTok. Law enforcement and local authorities, however, say they haven’t identified specific or credible threats in most of these situations.
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TikTok is planning to make some changes to its highly popular and sometimes controversial For You page algorithm. According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, TikTok is adjusting its recommendation algorithm to “avoid showing users too much of the same content.”
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In the year that TikTok joined the list of the few apps that broke 3 billion downloads globally, the company is now celebrating all of the trends that went viral during 2021 on its app.
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Earlier this year, TikTok introduced a new Q&A feature to let users send questions to the creators – similar to what you can do on Instagram with the question boxes. The feature mysteriously disappeared from the social network months later, but now TikTok is relaunching Q&A with even more options.
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One of the most anticipated features of iOS 15 was SharePlay, which gives users the ability to listen to songs, watch TV shows, play games, and more while on a FaceTime call with friends or family members. To take advantage of this feature, many apps are being updated so users can enjoy them together.
One of the applications that brought a special touch while users are on a FaceTime call using SharePlay is TikTok with a new “For Us” page.
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A new report estimates that Apple’s app privacy policy – aka App Tracking Transparency – will cost social media companies almost $10B in the second half of this year.
It says that’s because their unique selling point (USP) was the ability to target particular demographics and interest groups, and that now they can no longer offer that, advertisers are taking their business elsewhere …
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There’s been growing concern about Instagram teen usage after leaked internal reports suggested that the app could be unhealthy for some teenage girls. App owner Facebook now says it is taking action to promote healthier usage.
Separately, an academic argues that lawmakers don’t understand teenagers, and that they are trying to legislate control of the wrong app …
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The viral short-form video application TikTok is currently down for many users. According to data from DownDetector as well as reports on Twitter, users are having issues loading TikTok, posting videos, commenting, and more.
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As AR and VR become more popular, tech companies have been investing more and more in these technologies. Now, ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, has announced the acquisition of a VR-focused startup called Pico.
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The popular social network TikTok is working to expand the limit of videos that users can upload. Following another expansion last year, the company is now testing a longer 5-minute video upload limit with a small group of users.
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