Tick Tock TikTok
Tick Tock TikTok
Nicole Hale, Breana Merrifield, and Madison Collette doing a TikTok dance.
Source: Nicole Hale, eighth grade student at McAuliffe
Source: Nicole Hale, eighth grade student at McAuliffe
Nicole Hale, Breana Merrifield, and Madison Collette doing a TikTok dance.
October 25, 2019
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TikTok is a social media video app known all over the world for its lip-syncing videos. The app has over 500 million active users each month, which is more than double the amount of people who used Vine.
The app first started with the name Musical.ly. Musical.ly was first created in April of 2014 and was a huge hit worldwide. Five years later, ByteDance, the Chinese company that owned Musical.ly, decided to make a greater app and renamed it TikTok. They chose the name TikTok because they wanted a new name that would draw people’s attention and represent the users better.
In February of 2019, TikTok hit one billion downloads globally, and it is now available in 154 countries and 33 languages. The app is filled with many different diverse communities, from teenagers to celebrities.
Another feature about TikTok is the different dances you can learn. You can watch videos of other people doing dances and learn them. Dance challenges have become extremely popular on TikTok with over one billion views for the hashtag #DanceChallenge. Middle schooler Keira Pycior says, “I love TikTok. It is really fun and it is so much fun to learn dances and stuff.”
TikTok is on a high right now, but how are they acquiring their money? According to The Verge, “For the most part, TikTok doesn’t offer creators a way to make money on its platform. Creators can secure sponsorships and brand deals for individual posts, but those deals have to be secured without TikTok’s help.”
“I don’t go to sleep until 11:00 because of TikTok. It is so addictive,” states seventh-grader Sofia Bugarin.
Overall, TikTok is getting more popular by the minute and is displaying a major impact on teens in our society today.
Ava Swietlikowski is 12 years old and currently a seventh grader at McAuliffe Middle School. She dances and competes in Youth American Grand Prix (the...
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this article was super well written!! amazing job!!
This article was better than the actual videos on the platform
I agree with you Bryan White.
This was a really great article, I loved how you put both the good and bad qualities about this app.
That was such a great article Ava! I love the app, i honesty spend too much time on the app.
I really love how you wrote this article. My friends are in the picture and you know that many people love tik tok.
Your so great at writing Ava, keep up the great work!!!
All your articles are very interesting:)
I really enjoyed this article and your word choices are very well thought and I love reading your articles!
I loved your article and I learned a lot more about tik tok reading your story. I thought it was really well written.
Good Job! Your article was very well written !
lol I love how it says “I don’t go to sleep until 11:00 because of TikTok. It is so addictive,” it’s so true I stay up till like 1:45 am when my stepdad comes home.Such creative and joyus words :>
Omg your so right I love tiktok so much and its to addicting 🙂 this was such a great article good job!
I really like your article, I didn’t even know it was made by a Chinese company.
I love how you made articles about trending stuff. It draws peoples attention to reading your articles and find out amazing stuff they did not know about apps they use every day! Your one of my favorite writers on Bird Watch, keep on the good work!
I really enjoyed reading about it! I don’t have TikTok but it sounds like a super cool app!
I like the cover you used for the article
I love how you included the good and bad in the app! Great writing strategy overall and I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with next!
love the pic
Does anyone remember the app Music Lee?
Does anyone remember the app Music Lee
I have tik tok and reading your article made me think more about the app! It is very in formative and I love your word choice!
Even though I don’t have Tik Tok, ,it was a really great article, I loved how you put both the good and bad qualities about this app. Now I know, what good about Tik Tok, and what’s bad about tik tok.
This article was very helpful, and opened up my eyes to how many users are actually on the app
This article was well written and I’m glad you added the fact that tik tokers don’t get payed but instead they make sponsorship’s because I didn’t know that.