No. TikTok was unique. And won mainly because of algorithm. Not format.
Format only gets you so far.
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True. Take a look at Chinese short video platforms. TikTok was not really the earliest or most famous. Before it there was Kwai. Same format, even more popular. But look who’s the winner now?
TikTok definitely won on both user bass, content and algorithm.
I have never used Tiktok, only people from European and American countries use it. Tiktok is a public opinion tool controlled by CCP. It's real "spyware". The Chinese know that only the Americans don't.
I also don’t use it. Can’t stand the junks.
Tiktok monitors every move of users and knows what they do every day. Really spyware.
However, in China, except that the CCP does not know the color of underwear that every Chinese wears every day, everything else is controlled. Every day, who do Chinese people date, eat with, and sleep with. Basically mastered everything clearly. All apps in China are user trackers with backdoors.
We’ve been spied on way before TikTok lmfaoooo. That’s the least of our worries in the states. Nonetheless, VPNs exist
Exactly this
Algorithms amirite
100% algorithm. UI is nice, but algo put it at the top of the heap.
Can you elaborate on what is was about their algorithm which gave them an advantage ?
Three words: For you page.
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Tiktok's products violate user privacy to obtain algorithmic spyware.
Tiktok uses 500 million Chinese users to conduct experiments and test algorithms. Get promoted in the United States.
Tiktok is no match for WeChat in China. WeChat is really a must. Chinese people don’t understand R&D or innovation.
Because of ideological confinement, CCP doesn’t allow Chinese people to be innovative. However, with a user base of 1 billion, they can copy all the excellent products in the United States, and the promotion of applications is quite good.
And still wins because of algorithm. I hope the RESTRICT Act never passes