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Headings: How TikTok Is Addictive
How TikTok Is Addictive
Psychological Impacts of TikTok’s Content Recommendation System
TikTok is Unique
The Audience
How TikTok Affects Us
What TikTok Does Well
The Attention Economy
Conclusion
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Content: How TikTok Is Addictive. Psychological Impacts of TikTok’s… | by - | DataSeries | Medium
How TikTok Is Addictive
Psychological Impacts of TikTok’s Content Recommendation System
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Sep 6, 2020 · 9 min read
TikTok is the fastest growing social media platform in the world! Each month TikTok has 800 MILLION active users. That is more active users than Twitter, Reddit, SnapChat, and Pinterest! Unlike these and other rival platforms, TikTok at its core recommends content. Recommendations aren’t but a feature, they are what makes TikTok work! TikTok receives more engagement per user than Instagram and on average its users spend 52 minutes per day on the platform. These are incredibly shocking statistics coming from a platform that begin in late 2016! This article will explore how the TikTok recommendation algorithm works, the implications of such a system and what the goals that TikTok aims to accomplish by providing a platform that keeps its statistically young users so engaged. TikTok is Unique
Many social platforms use some variation of a recommendation algorithm to provide accurate content that fit the historic behaviors of its users.