As TikTok grows, so does suspicion

Re:As TikTok grows, so does suspicion by CommitSyn on Sunday July 10, 2022 @03:29PM (#32048077)

Now that YouTube has shorts I wonder how many creators are switching. Part of the reason you can get so many followers on TikTok is the video length. When it started you could only post a 15-second video. Later on they allowed you to link 15-second videos up to a minute in length. Then it was 3 minutes, and in February they changed the maximum video time to 10 minutes.[1]

Viewers can watch a lot more 15-second or 1-minute videos than 10-minute videos. If 5-10 minute videos start becoming popular, expect the reach new creators can get to drop drastically.

1. https://screenrant.com/tiktok-videos-minimum-maximum-length-...

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Re:As TikTok grows, so does suspicion by winternett on Sunday July 10, 2022 @10:35PM (#32051549)

They are all portrait mode videos though, not very versatile and useful in the long term... Actually, portrait content was dying off before TikTok...

It's bewildering how they warehouse so much content that will really not endure, at some point they're likely going to need to archive a lot of TikTok user posts, because the content is very low quality overall, and a lot of the content generated is limited by it's context.

It probably be a huge sticker shock to see the monthly cloud hosting bill for any one of these apps.

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