This TikTok tune has the world dancing in Metro to bedroom. Watch viral videos

2 days, 3 hours ago

ByteDance’s Lemon8 gains traction amid TikTok ban threat as creators push the app

Hearing a lot about Lemon8 lately? Amid a looming U.S. ban on TikTok, content creators have been pushing the platform’s sister app. Lemon8’s popularity could potentially soar further depending on the outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court hearing Friday over a law requiring TikTok to break ties with ByteDance or face a U.S. ban. TikTok said the integration was designed …

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TikTok users want SCOTUS to think it’s more about dance videos than Chinese international intrigue

CNN

CNN — TikTok, the popular social media platform celebrated for its frothy mix of dance videos, cat antics, news clips and recipes, will wage a substantial First Amendment battle at the Supreme Court on Friday. “Most of it consists of things like dance videos, home-repair tutorials, and montages of weekend getaways.” More importantly as a matter of First Amendment protection, …

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3 days, 16 hours ago

Labour apologises for explicit song use in TikTok video

The Independent

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Labour Party has apologised after posting an AI-generated video on …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

TikTok the thug of the neighbourhood, says PM as Albania shuts down app for at least a year

New Indian Express

TIRANA: Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced Saturday that the government will shut down social network TikTok for at least a year starting at the beginning of 2025. During a meeting in Tirana with Albanian teachers, parents and psychologists Rama said that "TikTok is the thug of the neighbourhood". The killing sparked a debate in the country among parents, psychologists …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

The 1 Thing You Should Do On TikTok Before A Potential Ban

Huff Post

Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty Worried about losing access to your TikToks? Lawmakers behind the TikTok ban said the app’s Chinese owner has national security risks that could allow the Chinese government to gain access to sensitive U.S. data ― an accusation TikTok denies. I’m one of the 170 million Americans who use TikTok every day, and I’ve started downloading …

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1 month ago

TikTok lost a major legal bid to avoid a U.S. ban. Now what?

LA Times

A visitor passes the TikTok exhibition stands at the Gamescom computer gaming fair in Cologne, Germany, in 2022. “Here the Government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to gather data on people in the United States.” Legal experts said they expect TikTok will appeal its case to the Supreme …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

Meet the Tiktoking migrant: Afghan with Kalashnikov face tattoo and gun-toting friend is racking up the online likes as he tries to join the armada of small boats bringing people to the UK

Daily Mail

An illegal migrant has racked up millions of views on TikTok by boastfully posting videos of him attempting to cross the English Channel on a small boat. Asylum seeker Mada Pasa, who has a Kalashnikov face tattoo, has provoked fury with his online videos in which he pretends to fire a gun and 'vlogs' his efforts to illegally reach the …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

How a catchy tune became the soundtrack to TikTok's silliest videos

NPR

How a catchy tune became the soundtrack to TikTok's silliest videos toggle caption Kevin MacLeod/YouTube/Screenshot for NPR Turn to TikTok for some amusement, and you’ll find short videos of a fluffy cat cuddling a fluffy dog, a toddler clutching a bag of Doritos as though it were a teddy bear, or a penguin creating flipper-print artwork. You’ll have to turn …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Tinashe beats Sabrina Carpenter and Billie Eilish to TikTok song of the summer

The Independent

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5 months, 1 week ago

TikTok Has a Nazi Problem

Wired

Neo-Nazis and white supremacists are sharing Hitler-related propaganda and trying to recruit new members on TikTok, according to a new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shared exclusively with WIRED. The report from ISD details how hundreds of extremist TikTok accounts are openly posting videos promoting Holocaust denial and the glorification of Hitler and Nazi-era Germany, and suggesting that …

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6 months, 1 week ago

What is ‘rawdogging’? Bizarre travel trend sweeping TikTok explained

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Parents cling to iPads, couples play cards and solo travellers fly through the movie menu – …

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7 months ago

"Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult": A tango between coercion and the entertainment industry

Salon

Hollywood and cults have a natural affinity for each other. Enter “Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult,” the Netflix docuseries bridging the gap between the very online and those of us who primarily watch TV for distraction. But you may have noticed Miranda and her husband James “BDash” Derrick dancing in the 2024 version of “Road House,” recognize …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threat

Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that’s probably because it has, at least if you’re measuring via internet time. October 2019 U.S. politicians begin to raise alarms about TikTok’s influence, calling for a federal investigations of its Musical.ly acquisition and a national security probe into TikTok and other Chinese-owned apps. February 2021 Newly sworn-in …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threat

The Independent

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Instagram, YouTube the biggest likely winners of TikTok ban but smaller rivals could rise too

Associated Press

Adult U.S. TikTok users spend an average of 54 minutes on the app on any given day, more than Instagram, Snapchat or YouTube, according to research firm eMarketer. “Replicating TikTok’s algorithm is a nearly impossible task, as rival Meta would attest to,” said eMarketer analyst Jasmine Enberg. “TikTok’s ability to serve up relevant and entertaining content to its users is …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

European Union questions TikTok on new app that pays users for watching

Associated Press

LONDON — European Union regulators said Wednesday they’re seeking details from TikTok on a new app from the video sharing platform that pays users to watch videos. The European Commission said it sent TikTok a “request for information” on the TikTok Lite app that has been quietly released in France and Spain. The commission said the app lets users earn …

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9 months ago

NYC earthquake caught on TikTok live stream: Though harmless, rare seismic activity disconcerts residents

Hindustan Times

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook the New York City area on Friday morning. Rare NYC earthquake caught on TikTok video Allison's video showed that the harmless seismic activity wasn't as much of a physical danger as it targeted the spectators' nervous system. New York Governor Kathy Hochul eventually reported “no life-threatening situations," with minimal damage to the sidewalk. Other confused …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

ByteDance | Dancing on a tightrope

The Hindu

Today, almost everything is tattooed with two letters — AI. Developed in 200 days, the app allowed users to share short videos, and within two years of its launch, it had over 150 million DAUs making and sharing content on the platform. Censorship and geopolitics The rise of ByteDance, particularly TikTok, underpinned by its advanced AI-based recommendation engine, has prompted …

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9 months, 4 weeks ago

Chinese street dance craze shakes up the world

China Daily

A Japanese youth performs kemusan on the street. During February's Lunar New Year celebration, nearly 60 students from Silpakorn University in Bangkok dressed up in the traditional attire of some Chinese ethnic groups and performed the kemusan dance. Vachirapol Prommalikit, a sophomore at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, said the "subject three" dance has been popular in Thailand for some time. …

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9 months, 4 weeks ago

Chinese street dance craze shakes up the world

China Daily

A Japanese youth performs kemusan on the street. During February's Lunar New Year celebration, nearly 60 students from Silpakorn University in Bangkok dressed up in the traditional attire of some Chinese ethnic groups and performed the kemusan dance. Vachirapol Prommalikit, a sophomore at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, said the "subject three" dance has been popular in Thailand for some time. …

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10 months ago

A TikTok Stunt Motivates Lawmakers to Take on the App

Live Mint

lawmakers are mounting their most serious attempt to effectively either ban popular video app TikTok or separate it from its Chinese owner, advancing a bill that has more political momentum than previous attempts. “I think TikTok made our case for us today," said Rep. Bob Latta, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce’s panel on communications and technology. “The Administration …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

TikTok is finally on the decline. Here’s why.

Slate

Don’t look now, but after half a decade of transforming public life on an international scale, TikTok may finally be entering its flop era. Then, there’s also the sharp slowdown in user growth over the past year, widespread annoyance with its ad-heavy push into e-commerce via the “TikTok Shop,” impatience with its never-ending deluge of A.I.–generated spam and misinformation, exhaustion …

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11 months, 1 week ago

FACT CHECK: Misleading video falsely identifies specially-abled man as TikTok founder | Here's the truth

India TV News

A video circulating online has sparked false claims that a specially-abled man featured in the footage is the founder of the popular Chinese social media platform TikTok. India TV's Fact Check team has conducted a comprehensive investigation, debunking these claims and identifying the man in question as Chinese motivational speaker Chen Zhou, not affiliated with TikTok. The misinformation surrounding the …

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55 years ago

Why So Many TikTok Videos Don't Have Sound Anymore

Wired

Starting Thursday, the sounds on TikTok have gotten a little quieter. That’s because Universal Music Group has removed its catalog from the video-sharing app after the massive music company failed to reach a licensing agreement with TikTok. Not only will users now be unable to make new videos with official snippets from UMG artists, previously published videos that contain music …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Universal Music Group to pull songs from TikTok in furious row over artist rates and AI

The Independent

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. On Wednesday Universal Music Group published an unprecedented open …

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1 year ago

TikTok Strikes Back in Indonesia

Live Mint

The Indonesian government executed its crackdown on “social shopping" in the name of protecting local small businesses. The viral short-video platform, owned by China’s Bytedance, agreed to combine its nascent TikTok Shop operations in Indonesia with GoTo’s e-commerce subsidiary Tokopedia on Monday. Indonesia’s largest internet company doesn’t get any upfront cash, since the injection from TikTok will go into the …

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1 year, 2 months ago

LSU's superstar gymnast Olivia Dunne wows her 7.8m TikTok fans with beam and bar routines as she shares impressive behind-the-scenes training videos online

Daily Mail

Olivia Dunne has shown off her incredible gymnastics ability with a series of training videos to send her 7.8m TikTok fans wild. Olivia Dunne warms up before jumping onto the beam, and flies around on the bar Dunne impressed her fans with the advanced nature of her routine on the bar at LSU Dunne likes to take her 7.8m TikTok …

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1 year, 3 months ago

TikTok trials advert-free paid subscription plan

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy TikTok is trialling a new …

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1 year, 3 months ago

TikTok Stars Are Turning to 24/7 Livestreams for Cash

Wired

JettyJamez and AutumnRaynn have been live on TikTok for more than three weeks. But there’s cold hard cash motivating such streamers, as well as a chance to achieve stardom without any special skills—an uncanny version of Big Brother or The Truman Show without producers. JettyJamez and AutumnRaynn’s seemingly endless livestream is just one of many types of bizarre content on …

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1 year, 3 months ago

TikTok isn't just for Gen Z: What the app is useful for.

Slate

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. The thing is, even if you aren’t on TikTok, you are, in all likelihood, lapping up its content when it gets regurgitated on Twitter or Instagram Reels, or the New York Times itself. I’ve learned how to do bold alternative makeup from @garancemurru; been inspired to mix elements …

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1 year, 4 months ago

YouTube adds TikTok-like “Samples” tab in YouTube Music

The Hindu

YouTube is updating its Music app to add a new feature called “Samples” to help users find new music on the platform. The new tab, located between the “Home” and “Explore” tabs in the app is made up of small snippets of music videos, which users can interact with to be directed to the full video of the song. YouTube …

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1 year, 5 months ago

TikTok unveils changes to meet tough new EU rules

The Hindu

Video-sharing platform TikTok announced Friday changes to meet strict EU rules including allowing European users to turn off the addictive feature that shows content based on their interests. Heeding that warning, TikTok said it would allow users in Europe "to turn off personalisation", referring to the "For You" feed that keeps people watching videos with recommended content based on their …

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1 year, 5 months ago

How to watch the Taylor Swift concert from the comfort of your sofa

LA Times

Each night of Taylor Swift’s blockbuster Eras tour, superfan Tess Bohne gets dressed up in her best Swift-themed outfit, paying homage to a beloved song, a red-carpet look or an album’s anniversary. “I feel like it’s become a lot harder to find streams,” Bohne said. Fans who consume the raw, user-generated streams on TikTok typically skew younger than YouTube audiences …

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1 year, 6 months ago

TikTok Now Launches Music Service To Rival Apple Music And Spotify: All Details

News 18

TikTok has launched a subscription-based music streaming service to take on market leaders Apple and Spotify. The subscription-only music streaming service called “TikTok Music” has been launched first in Brazil and Indonesia. “We are pleased to introduce TikTok Music, a new kind of service that combines the power of music discovery on TikTok with a best-in-class streaming service. TikTok Music …

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1 year, 7 months ago

TikTokers walking into random people’s homes prompts police investigation

The Independent

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1 year, 9 months ago

Cats play a tic-tac-toe game in viral video. It ends in a draw

Hindustan Times

Tic-tac-toe is a popular game that has stood the test of time and continues to be enjoyed by children and adults alike. In it, one can see two cats playing a tic-tac-toe game in their own signature style. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} “Tic-tac-toe game,” read the caption of the video shared on an Instagram page dedicated to cats …

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1 year, 10 months ago

TikTok employee goes viral after posting office tour after she is laid off

The Independent

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1 year, 10 months ago

Republicans push to give Biden power to ban TikTok

The Telegraph

An influential US Congress committee has backed a bill that would give President Joe Biden the power to ban TikTok. The US House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 24 to 16 to approve the measure giving Mr Biden new powers to ban the ByteDance-owned app, which is used by over 100 million Americans, as well as other apps considered security risks. …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Fact Check: This video doesn't show deep cracks caused by recent tremors in Turkey and Syria

India Today

Just two weeks after a series of quakes left thousands dead and millions homeless in Turkey and Syria, a 6.4-magnitude tremor struck the border region of the two countries on February 20. AFWA found that the video in question is from China and is not related to the recent quakes in Turkey and Syria. Using relevant keywords in the Chinese …

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1 year, 10 months ago

US should consider banning TikTok, says senator

Hindustan Times

United States senator Chuck Schumer believes a proposal to ban popular short-form video hosting service TikTok in the country 'should be looked at'. Meanwhile, Republican senator from Florida Marco Rubio and Angus King, an independent lawmaker from Maine, have reintroduced a new legislation aimed at target TikTok - unless it cuts ties from its current owner, a report by US …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Danish students dance to Tunak Tunak Tun, netizens want to 'join this party.' Watch

Hindustan Times

Many Indian songs are peppy, and one can't help but groove to them. Now, a video of students from a Danish school has gone viral online for their choreography on Tunak Tunak Tun by Daler Mehndi. Danish students dance to Tunak Tunak Tun in a viral video. Students of Nordjyllands Idrætshøjskole, a sports college in Denmark, are seen dancing to …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Intentional errors: A simple way to hack the TikTok algorithm.

Slate

Joshua Landy noticed the reaction almost immediately. “It doesn’t mean anything.” Regardless of whether you buy that explanation, there’s still something to be learned from the original video’s 5.6 million views, 7,000 comments, numerous TikTok response videos, and burgeoning afterlife as a meme. He was credited by his former colleague Steven McGeady with Cunningham’s Law: “The best way to get …

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2 years ago

TikTok’s addictive anti-aesthetic has already conquered culture

LA Times

If Franz Kafka were to reconceive “The Metamorphosis” for our era, he might decide to ditch the novella in favor of a series of surreal TikToks — Gregor Samsa as eyes and mouth green-screened onto a picture of a roach jacked from the web. Facebook’s dull-blue interface feels so bureaucratic that critic Joanne McNeil once wrote that it looked “as …

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2 years ago

Man arrested after racist, homophobic comments to duo making TikTok video at In-N-Out

LA Times

A TikTok video made by two college students at an In-N-Out has racked up nearly 16 million views. A Denver man has been arrested and charged with allegedly making racist and homophobic comments to two people who were making a TikTok video at an In-N-Out in San Ramon. “During their meal a male suspect approached the victims unprovoked and engaged …

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2 years ago

Man’s incredible dance moves to Titliaan wows people. Watch viral video

Hindustan Times

The Internet is filled with different dance-related videos. From recreating dance routines of popular songs to dancing at different events, people share various kinds of videos. The video shows a man showcasing amazing dance moves to the song Titliaan. Digital content creator and Instagram user Sandeep Kumar posted the video. Soon he starts dancing to the song Titliaan and goes …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Corn Kid, Jiggle Jiggle, About Damn Time: TikTok reveals most viewed videos of 2022

The Independent

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2 years, 1 month ago

5 Popular TikTok Slangs That You Must Know About

News 18

Language is dynamic and is quite receptive to changes in culture and trends. From “POV” to “Go little Rockstar,” slang from the short video-sharing platform has made it to the urban dictionary. Here are five popular slangs from TikTok you need to know to strike a chord with Gen Z: POV POV is a popular acronym that stands for “Point …

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2 years, 1 month ago

The homogenisation of music: of TikToks and viral reels

The Hindu

There was once a time when everyone, generally, listened to the same English-language music. Instagram taking over the industry Soon after India banned TikTok, social media giant, Instagram, introduced “reels”, short videos usually no more than a minute long, featuring people dancing, lip-syncing to songs, showcasing various fashion trends, making jokes, really, just about anything else you can think of. …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Oti Mabuse promotes CPR skills with new TikTok dance

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Strictly Come Dancing star Oti Mabuse hopes to increase awareness about …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Watch: This Sea Lion Gliding In Empty Swimming Pool Is Giving Weekend Vibes

News 18

You must be aware of sea lion shows conducted in many parts of the world. One such video of a sea lion having a blast in an empty swimming pool has grabbed eyeballs on social media, leaving the Internet amused. A sea lion "helping" clean the pool.pic.twitter.com/88zR9fUl7T— Fascinating October 27, 2022 The now-viral clip shows a black sea lion sliding …

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