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Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by slipheen on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:00PM (#24012482)
From https://www.omnicoreagency.com/tiktok-statistics/

> 41 percent of TikTok users are aged between 16 and 24.

That seems rather youth-heavy when compared to Facebook (Timeline), Twitter, YouTube, Instagram.

Nothing inherently wrong with that, but it does come with risks.

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Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by sprite on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:03PM (#24012525)
What percentage is between 13-15? Or younger and lying about it. I would think 16-24 is their older user base.
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Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by nicky0 on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:50PM (#24013117)
My friend's kids, ages 9 and 11, are both obsessed with TikTok along with most of their school.
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Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by sanxiyn on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:03PM (#24012530)
I was more against "social network" part than "youth-based" part. TikTok is a broadcast media, not a social network.
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Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by slipheen on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:12PM (#24012646)
Fair enough, I suppose it depends on how broad your categories are.

Personally, I absolutely consider YouTube a video-based social network. You follow people/brands, have at timeline, can contribute comments on what they post, etc.

It doesn't tend to have as broad a social graph as something like FB, but almost nothing does. Twitter (for example) also has a large number of popular public accounts, similar to YouTube.

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Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera... by sanxiyn on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:22PM (#24012783)
Facebook and Twitter mostly do not subsidize content creation, but YouTube and TikTok definitely do. That's why I think TikTok will have more staying power.
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