Some people derive voyeuristic pleasure by watching photos and the private lives of others. Since then, it has exploded in popularity, becoming the most downloaded app globally in the first quarter of 2020. TikTok does allow some level of snooping, though. Would you like to read more about Facebook? New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, For sharing tips for content creation, ask other tiktokers for help, and other things that pertain to creating content! Cookies help us deliver our Services.

“The fact that TikTok is owned by a Chinese company makes it a legitimate security concern,” Schless added. Usually, To see the number of people that have viewed them, you can open up the TikTok app, tap on your profile picture and then go to your account.

----- The purpose of our channel is to create informational videos. The Chinese company ByteDance bought the app in 2018 and relaunched it with additional features.

Your TikTok profile is the way to display your likes and interests to the community.

That’s more data than companies like Twitter and Facebook collect. TikTok started as Musical.ly, which rose in popularity as a lip sync app. So if you get a sudden call from the person whose profile you have visited frequently, don’t consider it telepathy.

TikTok moderators were guided to censor videos that mentioned Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence and the banned religious group Falun Gong, the Guardian found in September 2019. This certainly boosts my ego. These are, Copy that number and paste the same next to.

TikTok is a video-sharing app similar to Snapchat and Instagram that lets users post clips that are 15 to 60 seconds long, usually set to music or a film dialogue. Because TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is based in China there are fears the company may share user data with the Chinese government, whether intentionally through data requests or unintentionally through surveillance software. With the US government considering banning the China-based video-sharing app, here’s what you need to know, Thu 16 Jul 2020 19.50 BST

While I am doing a little ego-surfing, I never miss checking my Facebook profile, where I can see several likes, comments, and sharing of my posts. He contributes to the social media section along with tips and tricks for iPhone, Apple Watch.

As of June 2020, TikTok does not show you who viewed your account. Social media is a Pandora’s Box, and we have to know its bad sides as well. “This is the perfect storm of technology meeting geopolitical rivalry,” said Douglas Schmidt, a computer science professor at Vanderbilt University. ... You might see several tools on the internet, claiming that they can show you who has viewed your TikTok videos. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts.