TikTok blocked the blacklivesmatter tag and every tag related to GeorgeFloyd

Posted by mdoms on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:32PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/revengedja/status/1266150192312651781

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Re:TikTok blocked the blacklivesmatter tag and every tag rel... by minimaxir on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:03PM (#23354172)

> This is a temporary glitch where view counts weren’t showing for any tags pre-upload. In search, you could always see view counts and once uploaded the hashtags worked normally. You just couldn’t see the view numbers pre-upload

https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1266350609319579648

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Re:TikTok blocked the blacklivesmatter tag and every tag rel... by snazz on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:59PM (#23354095)

My friend just checked and couldn't reproduce this. Either they've gotten some backlash or this was a mistake.

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Re:TikTok blocked the blacklivesmatter tag and every tag rel... by junyoon on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:09PM (#23354241)

'my friend' haha it's ok to use TikTok :P

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Re:TikTok blocked the blacklivesmatter tag and every tag rel... by snazz on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:13PM (#23354290)

No, actually my friend. I posted this in a group chat and he tried it.

I don't have a personal issue with TikTok. I just don't use it because it seems like it could be another addiction (I'm already addicted to HN and Reddit, as you can see by my comment history).

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Re:TikTok blocked the blacklivesmatter tag and every tag rel... by bedhesd on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:22PM (#23354386)

It appears to just be a system error and not anything of actual malice.

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