Leaked TikTok ad deck suggests it has 17M+ MAUs in Europe | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/leaked-tiktok-ad-deck-suggests-it-has-17m-maus-in-europe/

QuoteThat's right, TikTok — which on Feb. 27 got hit with a $5.7 million civil penalty from the FTC for illegally collecting data on children under the age of 13 — asked users to fork over their government IDs. In order to continue making and consuming viral video content.

TikTok just locked out a ton of users, and people can't take it
https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-locks-users-out-of-accounts/

I'm so out of it. I have never heard of TikTok and had to look up MAU (which they don't even bother to define in the Techcrunch article).

>TikTok

Think 4chan of vids & memes

Brands and advertisers are scrambling to tap into TikTok
https://www.fastcompany.com/90367516/sorry-ads-are-coming-to-tiktok

I just spent 5 minutes on it -- very youth oriented, I can;t see anybody over 25 spending much time on it.

I'm over 25

TY LM

Like 4chan & reddit, a lot of traffic but tough to monetize.  Games, maybe?

QuoteWhat's shining the brightest light on how tired both YouTube and YouTubers feel this year is VidCon's hottest new thing: TikTok.

The short-form video platform, owned by Beijing-based artificial intelligence company ByteDance, has completely cannibalized VidCon this year.

At VidCon, Influencers, Fans, And Brands Seemed Ready To Leave YouTube Behind (for TikTok)
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/vidcon-influencers-youtube-tiktok

How TikTok became the music discovery platform for smartphone users
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/29/how-tiktok-became-the-music-discovery-platform-for-smartphone-users.html

A leaked excerpt of TikTok moderation rules shows how political content gets buried - MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614758/tiktok-content-moderation-politics-protest-netzpolitik/

This helped finally understand sort of what this thread is about

A Guide to TikTok for Anyone Who Isn't a Teen
https://slate.com/technology/2018/09/tiktok-app-musically-guide.html

Oh, and this is right up my alley

QuoteHello, person who is, statistically speaking, a human adult aged approximately "millennial" to "boomer." The analytics suggest a high likelihood that you're aware there is an app named TikTok, and a similarly high likelihood that you're not totally sure what it's all about.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/style/what-is-tik-tok.html

Sort of a video Tumblr.   From comments on /r/ there is an increasing amount of adult content.

They said Instagram was for kids, as with several other new social thingies.

Could be worth exploiting.