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With Ocean Spray cranberry juice blowing up after the viral TikTok video, here are some other products that got the TikTok lift.
Can you fund a social media company like a video game?
The startup Yubo runs on in-app purchases.
The secret sauce behind TikTok’s recommendation algorithm
Eugene Wei explains why TikTok’s recommendation algorithm is so good. It has to do with an “algorithm-friendly” design.
The hottest campus job is ‘COVID influencer’
Reminding other students to wear masks? Your school might pay you for it.
Totally normal jobs are huge on TikTok
One tree-clearing business is getting 8m+ views just by filming a tree getting chopped down.
What you need to know about the TikTok deal
A TikTok deal with Oracle and Wal-Mart would value the video app at $60B. More broadly, the deal likely marks the end of the open internet.
Can social commerce catch on outside of China?
It might sound like a small deal. But some social commerce companies are empowering local businesses in big ways.
The big business of twinfluencers
Can’t tell them apart? That’s how you know the twinfluencers are winning.
Tons of startups are trying to turn streaming into social media
And it might just help the streamers keep their edge.
This company wants to empower creatives to branch off on their own
Subscriptions are old news. Enter “presubscriptions.”
Boomfluencers are taking over social media
The senior set is making a splash on social media.
TikTok’s terrible weekend is music to Triller’s ears
The smoke hasn’t cleared, but TikTok’s biggest rival is now at the top of the App Store charts.
Jaeson Ma: ‘I woke up to Triller being the #1 app in the world’
A co-owner of the hot TikTok competitor told us why Triller stands out from its rival.
QVC’s Gen-Z-friendly cousin has mastered the product drop
NTWRK will turn your sneaker launch into a full-scale event.
Your best Cameo shoutouts: The Nature Boy, Big Cat Rescue, and a 90th-birthday surprise
We asked, and y’all delivered.
Cameo is incredibly fun… and it has the foundation for a huge business
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The stan accounts trying to rescue discontinued foods
Across the internet, fans are fighting to bring back sandwiches and sodas lost to time.
The dictionary account that saved blue-check Twitter
Blocked from posting, internet celebrities started communicating through @everyword.
A buzz-worthy buyer is snapping up the IP of one of America’s many troubled retail chains
Tai Lopez, better known as the “here in my garage” guy, has another turnaround project.
LinkedIn Stories, IRS snooping, and why you should take that job at a startup
A procrastination-fueled dispatch from our Twitter feeds.
Against all odds, we’re living in Tinder boom times
Last month, Tinder was the 3rd-highest-grossing app in the US.
Amazon’s head honcho is still standing, but Twitter had a field day with #ripjeffbezos
The tweets lamenting Bezos’ fake demise included pictures of just about every white, bald man under the sun.
A new meme-making matrix could take your mashup game to the next level
Koji wants to amplify memes by remixing them, in the same way that TikTok squeezes more juice out of audio and video mashups.
A messaging app won a cat-and-mouse game with the Russian government
The government wanted in, but Telegram’s founder said nyet.
TikTok creators’ new dance move: flipping China censorship on its head
They’re filming virtual love letters with the Chinese flag, the national anthem, and hashtags like #ilovechina.
Twitter’s experiments try to make your timeline a little less awful
The company's latest test is another baby step toward curbing problems that have dogged the platform for years.
The Google Play store smacks down Zynn, the TikTok lookalike
The app that dished out tons of free money to users was filled with stolen content.
Tech is shaping the protests, from police scanner apps to Google Docs
The arsenal of protest apps is growing.
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