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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by smrk007 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @12:16PM (#24021595)
Or even a TikTok China and TikTok for the rest of the world? (Considering the ban of TikTok in India and the perceived threat of TikTok amongst several other countries as well.)
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by dragonwriter on Saturday August 01, 2020 @12:18PM (#24021616)
> Or even a TikTok China and TikTok for the rest of the world?

TikTok is banned in China, Douyin (also owned by ByteDance) is effectively “TikTok China”.

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by smrk007 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @12:19PM (#24021632)
Interesting. Thank you for clearing that up.
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by homarp on Saturday August 01, 2020 @12:18PM (#24021621)
"TikTok China" exists already, it's Douyin. It was there first (2016). Bytedance created TikTok as "international" Douyin in 2017, then merged it with musical.ly.
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by homarp on Saturday August 01, 2020 @12:26PM (#24021706)
Hidden forces behind Toutiao: China’s content king - https://www.ycombinator.com/library/3x-hidden-forces-behind-... is an interesting read.
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by baybal2 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @12:48PM (#24021896)
Too much hype.

2 reasons for the meteoric rise:

Super duper aggressive marketing spend, akin Apple's iphone rollout.

A long going murmur about them using funny accounting to drive their valuation into stratosphere, and use it to raise money.

"Machine learning" and everything else all fluff.

I can pretty much imagine something akin to page rank for videos being used, with some perceptrons sprinkled on top.

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by starfallg on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:10PM (#24022092)
>Super duper aggressive marketing spend, akin Apple's iphone rollout.

That's the real reason. Bytedance spent millions, possibly hundreds of millions, to buy those users. You couldn't escape from those ads in 2019.

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