TikTok could be the first in the world-used social network. Especially young users share with the App, from China, Videos and Gifs. Privacy advocates are concerned.
From a distance it looks like a Pantomime: If Falco puffs Punch his Smartphone, flies on the Display glitter out of his mouth. With a movement of the hand slows down and he speeds up a virtual rain. Short music videos of this type, produced and released in the App TikTok – have made the state of Schleswig-Holstein is known worldwide. More than five million follow the 23-Year-old, so he is the number two of the TikTok-Stars in Germany.
TikTok is some even better known under the name Musical.ly. The short-video service was bought seven months ago from the Chinese firm byte dance, which is currently the most valuable Startup in the world. Byte dance focuses primarily on artificial intelligence, in the sense of the Chinese state, which has set itself the target to, by 2030, the global number one in this area to rise. Data are the fuel of the self-learning Algorithms.
TikTok – self-presentation by Chinese App
issues of the day at 22:15, 25.02.2019, B. Young/K. Nastarowitz, NDR
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