Re: Tiktok Comment Liker
Carla Wykes
TikTok videos have grown increasingly popular over the last few years, with short clips showing people dancing, lip syncing, doing viral challenges, and so on. This relatively new platform lets users share short video clips, and can be looped. It is similar to the now-defunct Vine.
In September 2016, the Chinese company ByteDance created a video-sharing app called Douyin. The app had great success in China, and within a year already had 100 million users in the country and more than one billion daily views.
TikTok has been a huge success, and according to data from Sensor Tower, the App has surpassed 1.5 billion downloads in the App Store and Google Play in the last quarter of 2019. Though it is mostly known for its popularity in the West, TikTok was downloaded the most in India and has had success in many countries across the globe.
When you look at a profile there are a couple of features that attract all the attention, the username and the profile picture. We will have a closer look at the profile picture later on in the guide but it is good to keep in mind that many people on TikTok tend to use their own face on their profile pictures.
The username (enzoknolyt, below) will also be used in the URL of the account. Before April 2020, the smaller name underneath (Enzo Knol) was the user name, but TikTok changed this in the user interface.
If you want to make sure a video and the page are saved in the way you found them, you can make a snapshot of the page using the Wayback Machine. While the Wayback Machine is struggling with some social media, it works really well with TikTok.
Another option to download videos is by using extensions, but you need to decide for yourself if you want to use a third-party tool. One extension that you can use to download multiple videos at once is Instagram & TikTok downloader, but please note that this extension is only available on Chrome.
If you log in on your TikTok account using the browser, you can upload videos and can also see the user comments next to a video. This functionality is helpful for investigations, because it can provide you an insight in the discussion around a specific video.
If you create an account, there are different options to sign up; you can use your mobile number or your email address. You also have the option to use one of your other social media accounts to sign up.
If you use your email address to sign up, you will not be able to contact other users on TikTok without linking your phone number to your account in an additional step. However, if you only want to do searches on the app, an email address will be enough.
The tab music shows you the music that corresponds to your keyword and how many times the short music clip is used in videos. If you click on a song, you can see other videos where people used that same music clip.
It will make no difference if you place your keyword within quotation marks. Normally, surrounding your keywords with quotation marks will tell the website that the chosen keywords must appear as an exact phrase.
If you prefer not to use the TikTok phone app, there are various possibilities of how to go about searching the platform from outside. Compared to other mobile app-focused platforms like Snapchat, TikTok is quite accessible in terms of what type of information you can find when conducting web searches without having an account.
Searches on Twitter work in a very similar way. You will find the same tiktok.com, m.tiktok.com and vm.tiktok.com URLs, and you should definitely try out all of them. However, we found that there are less differences in the search results compared to Facebook when using those various options. Sometimes the results are even identical.
There is another search trick that is specifically helpful on Twitter. If a user decides to share a TikTok on Twitter via the TikTok app, they are presented with a tweet suggestion that looks like this:
TikTok users tend to get highly creative when choosing hashtags that include emojis. An advantage of using site operator searches for tags is that you will find hashtags with one or several emojis in them, which are otherwise hard to find. Have a look at the variety of emojis that come up when searching for hashtags related to corona:
Be aware that search engines do not index all videos published on TikTok. Due to the fact that different search engines index different videos, it is recommended to not only use Google, but also other search engines, and to combine all of the results.
If you are investigating a specific topic over a longer period of time, repeat those searches regularly. Not only does the content on TikTok change, you will also find that search engines index different videos at different points in time.
For instance, it can be very helpful to find out what other TikTokers think about a specific user of interest. If you want to read what others say about TikTok user @maxdressler, you can use the following search operator combination:
The site operator search presented above will even work if the user of interest has a private TikTok account. This means that in some cases, this technique will show you the only snippet of information that is publicly available about a specific user.
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