These TikTok user statistics tell the whole story of the new social media giant and give you some insights into the app's future.

Teenagers make up the largest group of active users on TikTok.

TikTok is developing into a key platform for news, advertising, politics, online shopping, and entertainment in Germany, with over 20 million monthly users. Especially among young people, TikTok plays an increasing role in their information environment. We provide a human-coded dataset of over 4,000 TikTok videos from German-speaking news outlets from 2023. The coding includes descriptive variables of the videos (e.g., visual style, text overlays, and audio presence) and theory-derived concepts from the journalism sciences (e.g., news values).

This dataset consists of every second video published in 2023 by major news outlets active on TikTok from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The data collection was facilitated with the official TikTok API in January 2024. The manual coding took place between September 2024 and December 2024. For a detailed description of the data collection, validation, annotation and descriptive analysis, please refer to:

Mayer, A.-T., Wedel, L., Batzner, J., Hendrickx, J., Bremer, E., Iwan, A., Stocker, V., & Ohme, J. (2025). News on TikTok: An Annotated Dataset of TikTok Videos from German-Speaking News Outlets in 2023. Proceedings of the Nineteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 19, forthcoming.

Tiktok network graph with 5,638 nodes and 318,986 unique links, representing up to 790,599 weighted links between labels, using Gephi network analysis software.

Source of:

Peña-Fernández, Simón, Larrondo-Ureta, Ainara, & Morales-i-Gras, Jordi. (2022). Current affairs on TikTok. Virality and entertainment for digital natives. Profesional De La Información, 31(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5962655

Abstract:

Since its appearance in 2018, TikTok has become one of the most popular social media platforms among digital natives because of its algorithm-based engagement strategies, a policy of public accounts, and a simple, colorful, and intuitive content interface. As happened in the past with other platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, various media are currently seeking ways to adapt to TikTok and its particular characteristics to attract a younger audience less accustomed to the consumption of journalistic material. Against this background, the aim of this study is to identify the presence of the media and journalists on TikTok, measure the virality and engagement of the content they generate, describe the communities created around them, and identify the presence of journalistic use of these accounts. For this, 23,174 videos from 143 accounts belonging to media from 25 countries were analyzed. The results indicate that, in general, the presence and impact of the media in this social network are low and that most of their content is oriented towards the creation of user communities based on viral content and entertainment. However, albeit with a lesser presence, one can also identify accounts and messages that adapt their content to the specific characteristics of TikTok. Their virality and engagement figures illustrate that there is indeed a niche for current affairs on this social network.

1) Data Introduction • The Dataset from TikTok contains 19,382 reports that users flagged as including "claim" in videos or comments, along with video length, transcription text, account status, and participation indicators, and is suitable for analyzing reporting reasons and viewer reactions by content.

2) Data Utilization (1) Dataset from TikTok has characteristics that: • This dataset consists of 12 columns, providing both the reported content type and the meta-participation index of the video. (2) Dataset from TikTok can be used to: • Claim Judgment Classification Model Development: By inputting video transcription text, participation indicators such as views, likes, shares, comments, and account authentication and sanctions information, the machine learning classification model can be automatically determined whether the content contains "claims." • Optimizing moderation tasks: Automate reporting priorities based on classification model predictability to speed up reporting processing and reduce supervision burden by selecting content that managers urgently need to review.

This is a dataset of videos and comments related to the invasion of Ukraine, published on TikTok by a number of users over the year of 2022. It was compiled by Benjamin Steel, Sara Parker and Derek Ruths at the Network Dynamics Lab, McGill University. We created this dataset to facilitate the study of TikTok, and the nature of social interaction on the platform relevant to a major political event.

The dataset has been released here on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7926959 as well as on Github: https://github.com/networkdynamics/data-and-code/tree/master/ukraine_tiktok

To create the dataset, we identified hashtags and keywords explicitly related to the conflict to collect a core set of videos (or ”TikToks”). We then compiled comments associated with these videos. All of the data captured is publically available information, and contains personally identifiable information. In total we collected approximately 16 thousand videos and 12 million comments, from approximately 6 million users. There are approximately 1.9 comments on average per user captured, and 1.5 videos per user who posted a video. The author personally collected this data using the web scraping PyTok library, developed by the author: https://github.com/networkdynamics/pytok.

Due to scraping duration, this is just a sample of the publically available discourse concerning the invasion of Ukraine on TikTok. Due to the fuzzy search functionality of the TikTok, the dataset contains videos with a range of relatedness to the invasion.

We release here the unique video IDs of the dataset in a CSV format. The data was collected without the specific consent of the content creators, so we have released only the data required to re-create it, to allow users to delete content from TikTok and be removed from the dataset if they wish. Contained in this repository are scripts that will automatically pull the full dataset, which will take the form of JSON files organised into a folder for each video. The JSON files are the entirety of the data returned by the TikTok API. We include a script to parse the JSON files into CSV files with the most commonly used data. We plan to further expand this dataset as collection processes progress and the war continues. We will version the dataset to ensure reproducibility.

To build this dataset from the IDs here:

1. Go to https://github.com/networkdynamics/pytok and clone the repo locally
2. Run pip install -e . in the pytok directory
3. Run pip install pandas tqdm to install these libraries if not already installed
4. Run get_videos.py to get the video data
5. Run video_comments.py to get the comment data
6. Run user_tiktoks.py to get the video history of the users
7. Run hashtag_tiktoks.py or search_tiktoks.py to get more videos from other hashtags and search terms
8. Run load_json_to_csv.py to compile the JSON files into two CSV files, comments.csv and videos.csv

If you get an error about the wrong chrome version, use the command line argument get_videos.py --chrome-version YOUR_CHROME_VERSION Please note pulling data from TikTok takes a while! We recommend leaving the scripts running on a server for a while for them to finish downloading everything. Feel free to play around with the delay constants to either speed up the process or avoid TikTok rate limiting.

Please do not hesitate to make an issue in this repo to get our help with this!

The videos.csv will contain the following columns:

video_id: Unique video ID

createtime: UTC datetime of video creation time in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format

author_name: Unique author name

author_id: Unique author ID

desc: The full video description from the author

hashtags: A list of hashtags used in the video description

share_video_id: If the video is sharing another video, this is the video ID of that original video, else empty

share_video_user_id: If the video is sharing another video, this the user ID of the author of that video, else empty

share_video_user_name: If the video is sharing another video, this is the user name of the author of that video, else empty

share_type: If the video is sharing another video, this is the type of the share, stitch, duet etc.

mentions: A list of users mentioned in the video description, if any

The comments.csv will contain the following columns:

comment_id: Unique comment ID

createtime: UTC datetime of comment creation time in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format

author_name: Unique author name

author_id: Unique author ID

text: Text of the comment

mentions: A list of users that are tagged in the comment

video_id: The ID of the video the comment is on

comment_language: The language of the comment, as predicted by the TikTok API

reply_comment_id: If the comment is replying to another comment, this is the ID of that comment

The date can be compiled into a user interaction network to facilitate study of interaction dynamics. There is code to help with that here: https://github.com/networkdynamics/polar-seeds. Additional scripts for further preprocessing of this data can be found there too.

There are currently over 1.5 billion active users on TikTok worldwide.

This study focuses on a unique social media user migration phenomenon: a large number of U.S. users shifted to another Chinese social platform, Xiaohongshu, against the backdrop of the U.S. government's push to ban TikTok. By constructing a multidimensional analysis framework, this study systematically analyzes 5,919 user reviews collected during January 2025. The study uses MediaCrawler crawler technology to collect data, TextBlob for sentiment analysis, and combines geographic distribution, time trend and text theme analysis methods to deeply explore this unique user migration pattern. The study finds that despite policy pressure, users have a neutral to positive attitude towards platform migration, with 59.6% of neutral comments and 32.7% of positive comments. The analysis of geographic distribution shows that 88.7% of users in the United States have a significant “digital backlash”. Temporal trend analysis reveals the “bimodal” character of user discussions, reflecting the dynamic change of policy impact and users' continuous attention. Text analysis further shows that users are more concerned about the functional experience of the platform than political factors, reflecting rationality beyond geopolitics. These findings provide new perspectives for understanding social media user behavior in the context of globalization, and have important implications for social media policymaking and platform operation. The study suggests that in the digital era, administrative means have limited influence on users' platform choices, and users' social needs and behavioral choices often transcend geopolitical constraints.

TikTok has 136 million monthly active users in the US alone.

This dataset supports research on how engagement with social media (Instagram and TikTok) was related to problematic social media use (PSMU) and mental well-being. There are three different files. The SPSS and Excel spreadsheet files include the same dataset but in a different format. The SPSS output presents the data analysis in regard to the difference between Instagram and TikTok users.

We used TikTok’s built-in account analytics to download and record video and account metrics for the period between 10/8/2021 and 2/6/2022. We collected the following summary data for each individual video: video views, likes, comments, shares, total cumulative play time, average duration the video was watched, percentage of viewers who watched the full video, unique reached audience, and the percentage of video views by section (For You, personal profile, Following, hashtags).
We evaluated the “success” of videos based on reach and engagement metrics, as well as viewer retention (how long a video is watched). We used metrics of reach (number of unique users the video was seen by) and engagement (likes, comments, and shares) to calculate the engagement rate of each video. The engagement rate is calculated as the engagement parameter as a percentage of total reach (e.g., Likes / Audience Reached *100).

Regional TikTok user statistics differentiate significantly. Each major region has also experienced growth a different times.

This dataset was initially used in the paper "The use and impact of TikTok in the 2022 Brazilian presidential election". It contains data from official TikTok accounts of the two main candidates running for the 2022 Brazilian presidential election, Lula (@lulaoficial) and Bolsonaro (@bolsonaromessiasjair). It was collected 576 posts of the candidates and more than 540 million interactions on these posts. Data encompass three periods of 2022: (i) Pre-campaign (Jun 30 to Aug 15); (ii) 1st round campaign (Aug 16 to Oct 1); and (iii) 2nd round campaign (Oct 2 - Oct 29). It contains two files. (i) Accounts: How many followers the candidate has, on a day-to-day basis, starting on Sept 5; and (ii) Posts and interactions: Individual data and metrics of each post, including date of the post, text, link for the post, number of plays, likes, comments and shares.

In 2023, the number of TikTok users in Malaysia was estimated to reach around ** million. The number was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029. Based on the forecast, the number of TikTok users in Malaysia will reach **** million by 2029.User figures, shown here with regards to the platform TikTok, have been estimated by considering company filings or press material, secondary research, app downloads and traffic data. They refer to the average monthly active users over the period and count multiple accounts by persons only once.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

TikTok has a significantly larger female user base globally.

A list of the most popular (top 100 by followers) Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok users. NB! For YouTube the followers are subscribers and the posts are videos.

Context: This dataset offers insights into the usage patterns of social media apps for 1,000 users across seven popular platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. It tracks various metrics such as daily time spent on the app, number of posts made, likes received, and new followers gained.

Dataset Features:

User_ID: Unique identifier for each user. App: The social media platform being used. Daily_Minutes_Spent: Total time a user spends on the app each day, ranging from 5 to 500 minutes. Posts_Per_Day: Number of posts a user creates per day, ranging from 0 to 20. Likes_Per_Day: Total number of likes a user receives on their posts each day, ranging from 0 to 200. Follows_Per_Day: The number of new followers a user gains daily, ranging from 0 to 50. Context & Use Cases: This dataset could be particularly useful for social media analysts, digital marketers, or researchers interested in understanding user engagement trends across different platforms. It provides insights into how much time users spend, how actively they post, and the level of engagement they receive (in terms of likes and followers).

Conclusion & Outcome: Analyzing this dataset could yield several outcomes:

Engagement Patterns: Identifying which platforms have higher engagement in terms of time spent or likes received. Active Users: Determining which users are the most active across various platforms based on the number of posts and followers gained. User Retention: Studying the correlation between time spent and follower growth, providing insight into user retention strategies for different platforms. Overall, the dataset allows for exploration of social media usage trends and helps drive decision-making for marketing strategies, content creation, and platform engagement.

TikTok users have the ability to submit reports that identify videos and comments that contain user claims. In a social media platform like TikTok, report a claim typically refers to the feature that allows users to report content that they believe violates the platform's community guidelines or terms of service. When a user reports a claim over a video, they are flagging the content for reviewing by the platform's content moderation team. The team then assess the reported content to determine if it indeed violates the guidelines, and if so, they may take actions such as removing the content, issuing a warning to the user who posted it, or even suspending or banning the user's account who posted the video. Reporting a claim is an important tool for maintaining a safe and respectful environment on social media platforms.

However, this process generates a large number of reports that are challenging to consider in a timely manner. Therefore, TikTok is working on the development of a predictive model that can determine whether a video contains a claim or offers an opinion. With a successful prediction model, TikTok can reduce the backlog of user reports and prioritize them more efficiently.

The TikTok data team is developing a machine learning model for classifying claims made in videos submitted to the platform.

The target variable:

The data dictionary shows that there is a column called claim_status. This is a binary value that indicates whether a video is a claim or an opinion. This is the target variable. In other words, for each video, the model should predict whether the video is a claim or an opinion. This is a classification task because the model is predicting a binary class.

To determine which evaluation metric might be best, consider how the model might be wrong. There are two possibilities for bad predictions:

• False positives: When the model predicts a video is a claim when in fact it is an opinion
• False negatives: When the model predicts a video is an opinion when in fact it is a claim

In the given scenario, it's better for the model to predict false positives when it makes a mistake, and worse for it to predict false negatives. It is very important to identify videos that break the terms of service, even if that means some opinion videos are misclassified as claims. The worst case for an opinion misclassified as a claim is that the video goes to human review. The worst case for a claim that is misclassified as an opinion is that the video does not get reviewed and it violates the terms of service.

In a context where there is permanent electoral campaigning, an increasing number of political communication experts are trying to unravel the resources used by government officials and their parties to influence TikTok users. From a broad perspective, the subject matter is not new, but it is topical; nonetheless, this research discloses a gap in the literature by amalgamating the recognition of idiosyncratic attributes of the feminisation of political discourse on TikTok with the analysis of the reactions (text and emojis) that the audiovisual content imbued by this trend elicits in users. The purpose is to ascertain whether the inclusive tone of the feminised rhetorical style can be extrapolated to TikTok and, if so, whether its particular characteristics mitigate expressions of incivility. To do so, the initial content posted (first seven months) on TikTok by the Spanish political platform Sumar with its leader, Yolanda Díaz, featuring prominently in most of the videos, were selected for scrutiny. A mixed methodology analysis of audiovisual content and comments showed that the anti-polarisation rhetoric and storytelling contributed to neutralising the extreme forms of flaming, although Sumar did not use a strategy tailor-made to suit TikTok.

Globally the average user spends 52 minutes on TikTok every day. About 90% of their worldwide users access TikTok on a daily basis.