The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped under 10% on one of the world’s most wild trading days. This is the largest percentage day decline in one day since the stock market crashed in 1987. Investors brushed off the idea that the Federal Reserve went into damage control mode and offered nearly $1.5 trillion in emergency relief, as all major indexes saw a sharp drop.
TikTok is full of fun content that spurs viral challenges and sharing with the greater community. However, it also has a dark side as well. One aspect of this dark side is drug-taking. Recently, it was found that there are now hundreds of videos that glamorize and glorify drug-taking, which is, in turn, teaching children how to take illicit substances, including ketamine and MDMA.
If you tend to use Instagram on your PC through Windows 10, then you may notice that something has changed when you next access the app. This is because Instagram recently updated their software so that it can now be called a progressive web app, or a PWA.
The rapid and increasing spread of the coronavirus means that there are a lot of people currently in quarantine – both voluntarily and involuntarily. With nothing to do for a while, quite a few people have turned to social media sharing platforms like TikTok to make the most of their situation.
The U.S. government has reached out to TikTok in an attempt to stay on top of disinformation on social media sharing apps. As well as being increasingly popular among teens, the social media sharing app that’s owned by a Chinese company is also known for sharing its political memes as well. A press call occurred on Super Tuesday, with the main topic being election security.
The COO of Facebook is worried that TikTok is a potential threat. When she sat down for an interview with an NBC reporter, she discussed the way that different social media companies compete with one another for engagement. She said that they compete for users’ attention constantly.
It wasn’t that long ago that almost nobody was making money on TikTok, one of the world’s most popular social media sharing apps. However, now that it is growing exponentially, brands are descending in droves as they attempt to make the most of this brand new marketing space.
The head of operations of TikTok in India is confident that the fast-growing app will be able to increase its user base by as much as 50% this year, as it plans to work on monetizing the platform and come back from a pretty contentious year last year where it was banned from India completely.
There’s a new trend on TikTok called the ‘Skull-Breaker’ trend, and it’s as scary as it sounds. It’s so scary, in fact, that it has doctors worried about the potentially deadly consequences of being involved in a challenge like this.
TikTok, the popular social media sharing platform, has taken down an Australian profile that allegedly hunts down pedophiles. It lures them into meeting up with the user, which turns into a confrontation that is caught on camera. The NSW police are urging people not to become vigilantes and take the law into their own hands.