I’m 27 and I work in a college bar. We advertise more on tik tok because Instagram is not as vool
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All-New 'TikTok Photos' App Spotted, Likely to Be Instagram Rival
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The last few years they’ve changed their algorithm to the point where it’s not fun anymore — suggestions/ads all the time, little to no engagement, hardly see any people I follow and vice versa.
I hate the advent of social video stuff. I'd still much rather advertise with static ads and still like picture memes best.
They better hope the ban here in the US doesn't come to be though...
Sounds like signs are pointing to just that with how things are going
Sounds like signs are pointing to just that with how things are going
It’s hilarious the amount of hate this got because it’s a Chinese company. Ye, where were all your Apple products made?! 🤣 It boggles my mind how selective people are about their opinion, an opinion usually told to you by a misguided manipulative government. Good luck with that by the way! They do nothing Facebook doesn’t do, actually Facebook is worse, it actually runs mass manipulation of people for profit. But ye, I’m wrong cos what? China? 🤣 Hilarious.
Instagram is growing more than TikTok
"Instagram’s total number of app downloads grew 20 per cent in 2023 to 768mn compared with a year earlier, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, making it the most downloaded app in the world.
Downloads of TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, edged up a mere 4 per cent to 733mn over the same period."
That’s really the best you can muster? That the Chinese will spy on people?
Sounds like you know how the app works, where the video data is stored, and what data is collected. Please enlighten us.
At least IG doesn't allow people doing awful challenges that get people killed like TikTok does.
I wish people had the same concerns about American companies spying on its users.... But no, people like to throw out "China Spying" as if they really give two craps. If don't want companies spying on your data, get off the internet. Sadly just the world we live in today.
you're wrong and it's not and have any kind of real evidence to show that it is, you wouldn't even have that information unless you work at either or
so let's leave the hyperbole alone...
So after Instagram spent so much time copying TikTok's features, TikTok might just straight up make an Instagram clone? I guess this is the real Circle of Life, huh? 🦁
I don't know if it'll be successful, but I would love a proper alternative to Instagram. VSCO is the closest, but it's so dull; BeReal only copied the pretentiousness of another era of Instagram, and everything else is either too obscure or just "feels" too different (like Snapchat).
I don't know if it'll be successful, but I would love a proper alternative to Instagram. VSCO is the closest, but it's so dull; BeReal only copied the pretentiousness of another era of Instagram, and everything else is either too obscure or just "feels" too different (like Snapchat).
We thats why the sentences starts with I feel. Implying my opinion.so….
I feel like Mr users these days want to debate about everything lol.
I’d rather them have it than Facebook. What are they gonna do, come across the ocean and do something about it?Yes let’s give more data to the chinese instead with a redundant app
Considering the fact that the recent “chroming“ example literally had under 200 videos in the tag, and almost all of them were about painting objects chrome, I do not think Tik Tok is any more at fault here than YouTube.
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Anyways, I stopped using Instagram but I might use this if the Tik Tok shop ads aren’t too annoying.
I love this whole notion that China is spying via TikTok...
What're they gonna learn about me from TikTok that they didn't already get off the dark web from a compromised U.S. company?! It's the internet. Nothing is sacred. FWIW, I fully believe the issue is less about China having eyes and more about western governments not having a say in content moderation.
But in any case, I hope TikTok Photos gives Insta some real competition. Meta holds too much power.
What're they gonna learn about me from TikTok that they didn't already get off the dark web from a compromised U.S. company?! It's the internet. Nothing is sacred. FWIW, I fully believe the issue is less about China having eyes and more about western governments not having a say in content moderation.
But in any case, I hope TikTok Photos gives Insta some real competition. Meta holds too much power.
