In the fourth quarter of 2024, TikTok generated around 186 million downloads from users worldwide. Initially launched in China first by ByteDance as Douyin, the short-video format was popularized by TikTok and took over the global social media environment in 2020. In the first quarter of 2020, TikTok downloads peaked at over 313.5 million worldwide, up by 62.3 percent compared to the first quarter of 2019.

              TikTok interactions: is there a magic formula for content success?

              In 2024, TikTok registered an engagement rate of approximately 4.64 percent on video content hosted on its platform. During the same examined year, the social video app recorded over 1,100 interactions on average. These interactions were primarily composed of likes, while only recording less than 20 comments per piece of content on average in 2024.
              The platform has been actively monitoring the issue of fake interactions, as it removed around 236 million fake likes during the first quarter of 2024. Though there is no secret formula to get the maximum of these metrics, recommended video length can possibly contribute to the success of content on TikTok.
              It was recommended that tiny TikTok accounts with up to 500 followers post videos that are around 2.6 minutes long as of the first quarter of 2024. While, the ideal video duration for huge TikTok accounts with over 50,000 followers was 7.28 minutes. The average length of TikTok videos posted by the creators in 2024 was around 43 seconds.

              What’s trending on TikTok Shop?

              Since its launch in September 2023, TikTok Shop has become one of the most popular online shopping platforms, offering consumers a wide variety of products. In 2023, TikTok shops featuring beauty and personal care items sold over 370 million products worldwide.
              TikTok shops featuring womenswear and underwear, as well as food and beverages, followed with 285 and 138 million products sold, respectively. Similarly, in the United States market, health and beauty products were the most-selling items,
              accounting for 85 percent of sales made via the TikTok Shop feature during the first month of its launch. In 2023, Indonesia was the market with the largest number of TikTok Shops, hosting over 20 percent of all TikTok Shops. Thailand and Vietnam followed with 18.29 and 17.54 percent of the total shops listed on the famous short video platform, respectively.

With barely 10 seconds and 61 million likes, Bella Poach's lip syncing "M to the B" by Millie B was the most engaging video on TikTok as of March 2023. Bella Poarch, who as of the beginning of 2023 was the third-most followed creator on the popular social video platform, rose to popularity as a singer and content creators since opening a TikTok account in January 2020. Second ranked "dancing in front of the bathroom mirror," by user @jamie32bsh generated almost 52 million likes between its upload time - January 2022 and March 2023.

During the fourth quarter 2024, approximately 20.6 million TikTok accounts were removed from the platform due to suspicion of being operated by users under the age of 13. During the last measured period, around 185 million fake accounts were removed from fake accounts removed from TikTok.

Use our TikTok profiles dataset to extract business and non-business information from complete public profiles and filter by account name, followers, create date, or engagement score. You may purchase the entire dataset or a customized subset depending on your needs. Popular use cases include sentiment analysis, brand monitoring, influencer marketing, and more. The TikTok dataset includes all major data points: timestamp, account name, nickname, bio,average engagement score, creation date, is_verified,l ikes, followers, external link in bio, and more. Get your TikTok dataset today!

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.

Which county has the most Facebook users?

              There are more than 378 million Facebook users in India alone, making it the leading country in terms of Facebook audience size. To put this into context, if India’s Facebook audience were a country then it would be ranked third in terms of largest population worldwide. Apart from India, there are several other markets with more than 100 million Facebook users each: The United States, Indonesia, and Brazil with 193.8 million, 119.05 million, and 112.55 million Facebook users respectively.

              Facebook – the most used social media

              Meta, the company that was previously called Facebook, owns four of the most popular social media platforms worldwide, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Facebook, and Instagram. As of the third quarter of 2021, there were around 3,5 billion cumulative monthly users of the company’s products worldwide. With around 2.9 billion monthly active users, Facebook is the most popular social media worldwide. With an audience of this scale, it is no surprise that the vast majority of Facebook’s revenue is generated through advertising.

              Facebook usage by device
              As of July 2021, it was found that 98.5 percent of active users accessed their Facebook account from mobile devices. In fact, almost 81.8 percent of Facebook audiences worldwide access the platform only via mobile phone. Facebook is not only available through mobile browser as the company has published several mobile apps for users to access their products and services. As of the third quarter 2021, the four core Meta products were leading the ranking of most downloaded mobile apps worldwide, with WhatsApp amassing approximately six billion downloads.

#Coronavirus on TikTok:

Examining Factors Related to Reception of Content

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About this dataset

This dataset explores various factors associated with the reception of COVID-19 related content on TikTok. It not only captures overall levels of user engagement such as likes, comments, and views but also explores source credibility including information from healthcare professionals, news sources, patients, and other outlets. It further dives into demographic factors such as gender and age range as well as content type like humor or provision of clinical instruction. Finally, it takes a look at elements such as description of risk factors & symptoms along with modes of transmission established by the posts in question and prevention that was discussed within them. Moreover, there is a discernment component that breaks down user perception - rating the posts for level of misinformation (moderate/high/low). All these measures combined provide insights into how users are engaging with COVID-19 related misinformation on TikTok

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This dataset contains user engagement data and measures of source credibility related to COVID-19 misinformation on TikTok. It can be used to examine the factors associated with content reception, such as views, likes, comments, as well as factors relating to credibility, demographics and content type.

Using this dataset: - Explore the columns available in the dataset. There are a number of columns that measure user engagement (views, likes and comments) as well as source credibility (official source, healthcare professional etc.), demographic factors (gender, age group etc.), and content type (humor etc). Get familiar with all these columns so that you know what information is available for analysis.
- Decide what kind of analysis you want to perform. You can use this data for exploratory or explanatory work - depending on your aims or research question. For example if you want to see how source credibility affects user engagement then you would need descriptive statistical techniques such as correlation tests or regression analyses etc., whereas if you just want to gain an overall understanding of patterns in this data then exploratory techniques such as cross tabulations may be more suitable.

Research Ideas

• Developing a predictive model to identify which demographic and source characteristics are correlated with high user engagement for COVID-related posts on TikTok (e.g. views, likes, and comments).
• Investigating the difference in user engagement for posts from healthcare professionals vs non-professional sources to compare how different types of content are received by users on TikTok.
• Analyzing the sentiment of words related to masks and tests in order to gain insights into how content about this topic is perceived by users on TikTok (i.e., positive or negative sentiment)

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors. Data Source

License

License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) - Public Domain Dedication No Copyright - You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. See Other Information.

Columns

File: tiktok_data_open.csv | Column name | Description | |:-------------------------------|:------------------------------------------------------------------------| | views | Number of views for the video. (Integer) | | likes | Number of likes for the video. (Integer) | | comments | Number of comments for the video. (Integer) | | official_source | Whether the source of the video is an official source. (Boolean) | | pub_hcp | Whether the source of the video is a healthcare professional. (Boolean) | | pub_news | Whether the source of the video is a news source. (Boolean) | | pub_patient | Whether the source of the video is a patient. (Boolean) | | pub_other | Whether the source of the video is another source. (Boolean) | | female ...

Use our TikTok Shop dataset to extract detailed e-commerce insights, including product names, prices, discounts, seller details, product descriptions, categories, customer ratings, and reviews. You may purchase the entire dataset or a customized subset tailored to your needs. Popular use cases include trend analysis, pricing optimization, customer behavior studies, and marketing strategy refinement. The TikTok Shop dataset includes key data points: product performance metrics, user engagement, customer reviews, and more. Unlock the potential of TikTok's shopping platform today with our comprehensive dataset!

As of January 2024, Instagram was slightly more popular with men than women, with men accounting for 50.6 percent of the platform’s global users. Additionally, the social media app was most popular amongst younger audiences, with almost 32 percent of users aged between 18 and 24 years.

              Instagram’s Global Audience

              As of January 2024, Instagram was the fourth most popular social media platform globally, reaching two billion monthly active users (MAU). This number is projected to keep growing with no signs of slowing down, which is not a surprise as the global online social penetration rate across all regions is constantly increasing.
              As of January 2024, the country with the largest Instagram audience was India with 362.9 million users, followed by the United States with 169.7 million users.

              Who is winning over the generations?

              Even though Instagram’s audience is almost twice the size of TikTok’s on a global scale, TikTok has shown itself to be a fierce competitor, particularly amongst younger audiences. TikTok was the most downloaded mobile app globally in 2022, generating 672 million downloads. As of 2022, Generation Z in the United States spent more time on TikTok than on Instagram monthly.

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.

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.

As of April 2024, Facebook had an addressable ad audience reach 131.1 percent in Libya, followed by the United Arab Emirates with 120.5 percent and Mongolia with 116 percent. Additionally, the Philippines and Qatar had addressable ad audiences of 114.5 percent and 111.7 percent.

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.

During a 2024 survey, 77 percent of respondents from Nigeria stated that they used social media as a source of news. In comparison, just 23 percent of Japanese respondents said the same. Large portions of social media users around the world admit that they do not trust social platforms either as media sources or as a way to get news, and yet they continue to access such networks on a daily basis.

              Social media: trust and consumption

              Despite the majority of adults surveyed in each country reporting that they used social networks to keep up to date with news and current affairs, a 2018 study showed that social media is the least trusted news source in the world. Less than 35 percent of adults in Europe considered social networks to be trustworthy in this respect, yet more than 50 percent of adults in Portugal, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Croatia said that they got their news on social media.

              What is clear is that we live in an era where social media is such an enormous part of daily life that consumers will still use it in spite of their doubts or reservations. Concerns about fake news and propaganda on social media have not stopped billions of users accessing their favorite networks on a daily basis.
              Most Millennials in the United States use social media for news every day, and younger consumers in European countries are much more likely to use social networks for national political news than their older peers.
              Like it or not, reading news on social is fast becoming the norm for younger generations, and this form of news consumption will likely increase further regardless of whether consumers fully trust their chosen network or not.

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This dataset summarizes the most commonly used adjectives in the captions of TikTok videos that talk about animals in Italian cities.

Background: COVID-related misinformation is prevalent online, including on social media. The purpose of this study was to explore factors associated with user engagement with COVID-related misinformation on the social media platform, TikTok. Methods: A sample of TikTok videos associated with the hashtag #coronavirus were downloaded on September 20, 2020. Misinformation was evaluated on a scale (low, medium, high) using a codebook developed by experts in infectious diseases. Multivariable modeling was used to evaluate factors associated with number of views and presence of user comments indicating intention to change behavior. Results: 166 TikTok videos were identified. Moderate misinformation was present in 36 (22%) videos, and high-level misinformation was present in 11 (7%). After controlling for characteristics and content, videos containing moderate misinformation were less likely to generate a user response indicating intended behavior change. By contrast, videos containing high-level misinformation were less likely to be viewed but demonstrated a non-significant trend towards higher engagement among viewers. Conclusions: COVID-related misinformation is less frequently viewed on TikTok but more likely to engage viewers. Public health authorities can combat misinformation on social media by posting content of their own.

As of January 2024, #love was the most used hashtag on Instagram, being included in over two billion posts on the social media platform. #Instagood and #instagram were used over one billion times as of early 2024.

BackgroundThe development of short popular science video platforms helps people obtain health information, but no research has evaluated the information characteristics and quality of short videos related to cervical cancer. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality and reliability of short cervical cancer-related videos on TikTok and Kwai.MethodsThe Chinese keyword "cervical cancer" was used to search for related videos on TikTok and Kwai, and a total of 163 videos were ultimately included. The overall quality of these videos was evaluated by the Global Quality Score (GQS) and the modified DISCERN tool.ResultsA total of 163 videos were included in this study, TikTok and Kwai contributed 82 and 81 videos, respectively. Overall, these videos received much attention; the median number of likes received was 1360 (403–6867), the median number of comments was 147 (40–601), and the median number of collections was 282 (71–1296). In terms of video content, the etiology of cervical cancer was the most frequently discussed topic. Short videos posted on TikTok received more attention than did those posted on Kwai, and the GQS and DISCERN score of videos posted on TikTok were significantly better than those of videos posted on Kwai. In addition, the videos posted by specialists were of the highest quality, with a GQS and DISCERN score of 3 (2–3) and 2 (2–3), respectively. Correlation analysis showed that GQS was significantly correlated with the modified DISCERN scores (p

How many people use social media?

              Social media usage is one of the most popular online activities. In 2024, over five billion people were using social media worldwide, a number projected to increase to over six billion in 2028.

              Who uses social media?
              Social networking is one of the most popular digital activities worldwide and it is no surprise that social networking penetration across all regions is constantly increasing. As of January 2023, the global social media usage rate stood at 59 percent. This figure is anticipated to grow as lesser developed digital markets catch up with other regions
              when it comes to infrastructure development and the availability of cheap mobile devices. In fact, most of social media’s global growth is driven by the increasing usage of mobile devices. Mobile-first market Eastern Asia topped the global ranking of mobile social networking penetration, followed by established digital powerhouses such as the Americas and Northern Europe.

              How much time do people spend on social media?
              Social media is an integral part of daily internet usage. On average, internet users spend 151 minutes per day on social media and messaging apps, an increase of 40 minutes since 2015. On average, internet users in Latin America had the highest average time spent per day on social media.

              What are the most popular social media platforms?
              Market leader Facebook was the first social network to surpass one billion registered accounts and currently boasts approximately 2.9 billion monthly active users, making it the most popular social network worldwide. In June 2023, the top social media apps in the Apple App Store included mobile messaging apps WhatsApp and Telegram Messenger, as well as the ever-popular app version of Facebook.