Posted on 12/23/2021 1:14:02 PM PST by yesthatjallen
In 2020, the video-sharing platform was ranked No. 7 while Google came in at No. 1. This year, TikTok came in first, followed by Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple, in that order. Cloudflare's 2020 and 2021 rankings don't offer a perfect comparison; Cloudflare Radar, which compiles this information, only launched in September of 2020, so last year's rankings accounted for just a few months.
Regardless, Google is well aware of TikTok's dominance. The site has been looking to become increasingly focused on video and audio as the internet moves away from content people can read and toward content people can see or hear. Platforms like TikTok, Instagram and podcasts have largely led that shift.
TikTok's popularity also shows just how much people trust it. Google has long been a go-to for fact-checking information, but people may be increasingly willing to take people's word on TikTok without conducting any outside verification. The platform has added some measures to stop the spread of potentially misleading content, like adding banners on unverified TikToks and fact-checking content that users flag.
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Just another millennial social masturbation site, right?
How many does that useless crowd have now?
I really know nothing about Tik Tok. Are they as bad as Twitter, YouTube etc. in crushing the truth?
LOL. Remember back in the 1990s when the internet was promoted as a means of spreading unlimited knowledge, unleashing of freedom of speech, and universal creativity and expression for all?
The banality, state control, and porn have risen to the top.
Tiktok is a Gen Z phenomena.
Tic Tok
Takes a licking and keeps on ticking...
Should’ve listened to Trump.
Trump is right again.
The parts that annoy me as a prosecutor is that there are all these videos showing kids vandalizing school property, other “Jackass”-type stuff, and they end up in my municipal court because the school wants to “make an example” - of 12-year-olds taking the towel dispenser off the wall in the boys’ room. One that was more serious (potentially, nothing happened) was the declaration of “National School Shooting Day” last Friday. 21-century version of calling in a bomb threat hoax, I assume.
ChiComm data mining site.
“Take hold of those metal knobs on the arms of your chair,” whispered Lenina. “Otherwise you won’t get any of the feely effects.”
Whatever, they are all mostly useless drones AFAIK.
“The site has been looking to become increasingly focused on video and audio as the internet moves away from content people can read and toward content people can see or hear.”
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You just thought we already had poor literacy already.
Something I’ve noticed on Facebook, in some groups I follow on automotive repair and the like, is that older guys may have poor writing skills, but it’s the familiar types of errors, you can understand what they are saying.
The younger guys will write sentences that are simply ambivalent and also include the regular grammatical errors. You literally can not be sure what they are trying to say.
People will make assumptions about what each other is saying, based on regularly used terms in the context they are used.
For instance, someone will ask a question, and they will get three different answers, which are good answers, but good answers to three different questions.
It's mostly short videos of people dancing, eating, and other mindless stuff. It can be used to make political statements and is used by liberals to push an agenda. I've seen many videos of pastors pushing the gay agenda.
Of course they're focusing on video and audio. They don't know how to read.
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No, in fact they had a hell of a lot of pro-Trump videos during the 2020 campaign which surprised me. There’s also a ton of videos that bash Biden and what’s even more surprising is the main audience are teens and young adults.
Here’s a good one...
https://www.tiktok.com/@tsmitttyyy/video/6909997561520622853?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1
“...They don’t know how to read. ...”
Perhaps we all need to learn a new language - Mandarin
What about MySpace?.... : )
To be fair to the yutes, today everything is done on a phone instead of a desktop/laptop.
It's very hard to read more than a sentence or two on a phone's small screen, so of course videos and audios will be more popular.
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