TikTok Boom : China's Dynamite App and the Superpower Race for Social Media (True PDF)

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1912454793 | 288 Pages | True PDF | 1.76 MB

TikTok is the fastest growing app in the world, and the first to challenge Silicon Valley's dominance of social media.

Donald Trump claimed it was a threat to US security tried to outlaw it. India has banned TikTok.
Do the concerns about TikTok's Chinese ownership justify TikTok's treatment in the West How has it taken over the world in just a few years, and what does its success mean for the future of technology
In TikTok Boom, journalist and author of YouTubers, Chris Stokel-Walker has interviewed scores of people connected to the world's hottest app, including current and former employees, as well as some of TikTok's biggest names in front of and behind the lens, gleaning never-before-seen insights as to how the new influencer ecosystem works. And he goes behind the scenes at its ambitious Chinese owner, ByteDance, which wants to become Beijing's answer to Google, and finds out what has happened to its founder, Yiming Zhang.
TikTok Boom presents a nuanced, informed and incisive read on the characters and strats behind the world's new tech order.
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