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Former TikTok executive Stefan Heinrich Henriquez will be leading Cameo, the personalized video shoutout app, in its international expansion. Henriquez will leave his role as head of global marketing for TikTok to become chief marketing officer and general ma…

Actor Tommy Davidson, the voice of Oscar Proud, announced the show's Disney+ reboot, though the news hasn't yet been confirmed by Disney.

According to the Texas-based Episcopal priest David W. Peters, "I'm like the least funny priest I know."

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No one knows how TikTok’s For You page algorithm works, so users have taken it upon themselves to construct their own theories.

TikTok has been inundated by a slew of scammers seeking to take advantage of its quickly growing userbase, which surpassed 1 billion downloads in February 2019. Security firm Tenable has discovered scammers are leveraging old tactics to get users to sign up f…

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It’s been almost a year since PopBase first launched on the Battlefield Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018. In the ensuing months the company has been working hard to sign up influencers and get its platform for social media stars ready for prime time. The c…

ByteDance has taken another step into search with the launch of a new search portal today. Called Toutiao Search, the portal is part of the website for Toutiao, the news aggregator owned by ByteDance, and currently optimized only for mobile. Though it is part…

The play-on-words hashtag #Globalwarning has been viewed more than 24 million times by users of the app.

Senators are questioning Facebook again. This time their concerns are related to a design flaw that let thousands of kids join group chats with unauthorized users, The Verge reports. Senators Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) wrote a le…

RT @DragonflyJonez: Im still cracking up at the tiktok I'm QTing bc I remember the youngins killing the old heads with this hilarious tikto…

RT @HYUNH4YI: first treasure tiktok with girl groups omg nmixx https://t.co/dXxjgviw1O

RT @SalmanKNiazi1: Tiktok can easily replace door to door campaign of Election

Everybody been on TikTok live copying that girl. My blocklist doing prime wilt numbers.

RT @agentjay2009: Running out of adjectives to describe these unbelievable numbers on Chairman Imran Khan's TikTok account. In less than…

RT @iihtishamm: 100 Million views on Imran Khan’s first Tiktok video. Unbelievable!!!

RT @agentjay2009: Running out of adjectives to describe these unbelievable numbers on Chairman Imran Khan's TikTok account. In less than…

RT @agentjay2009: Running out of adjectives to describe these unbelievable numbers on Chairman Imran Khan's TikTok account. In less than…

This may be the best TikTok I've ever seen. https://t.co/cT6frdZoid

RT @BigBossVette: This girl on TikTok said one of the highest forms of love is consideration and I say this all the time somebody that does…

I know we all want the nine.i x zb1 tiktok on thursday but does anyone want a minjun and gunwook interaction

RT @iihtishamm: Less than 24 hours. Khan is followed by over a million people on TikTok and 57.7M views on his first video. https://t.co/B5…

RT @agentjay2009: Running out of adjectives to describe these unbelievable numbers on Chairman Imran Khan's TikTok account. In less than…

RT @agentjay2009: Running out of adjectives to describe these unbelievable numbers on Chairman Imran Khan's TikTok account. In less than…

RT @tbestJD: no press conference, no radio shows, no variety shows, no international promo, saboting youtube and tiktok views, only 1 week…

RT @agentjay2009: Running out of adjectives to describe these unbelievable numbers on Chairman Imran Khan's TikTok account. In less than…

RT @agentjay2009: Running out of adjectives to describe these unbelievable numbers on Chairman Imran Khan's TikTok account. In less than…

We need a total and complete shutdown of tiktok entering the United States until we can figure out what is going on. https://t.co/E4XaAUMeBf

RT @amnakhani123: UNBELIEVABLE ! UNBELIEVABLE! @ImranKhanPTI crossed 1M followers on TikTok in less than 24 hours. It’s his Era and we all…

How to tell if what your seeing isAI generated! Check out We the People!'s video! #TikTok https://t.co/SmJhZn4seg

RT @dexiewrites: Imran Khan hitting 1 million followers on TikTok in less than 24 hours has got to be some kind of a record. https://t.co/5…