{"id":799275,"date":"2022-06-20T10:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T10:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/06\/20\/were-not-an-entertainment-platform-not-a-social-network-tiktok\/"},"modified":"2022-06-20T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T10:22:21","slug":"were-not-an-entertainment-platform-not-a-social-network-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/06\/20\/were-not-an-entertainment-platform-not-a-social-network-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re not an entertainment platform, not a social network: TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has clarified that it is not interested in copying Facebook as it is not a social network but an entertainment platform, as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeks to make Facebook and Instagram to be more like TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Chandlee, TikTok&#8217;s president of global business solutions, told CNBC that Facebook is a social platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve built all their algorithms based on the social graph. That is their core competency. Ours is not,&#8221; Chandlee was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are an entertainment platform. The difference is significant. It&#8217;s a massive difference,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok is owned by China&#8217;s ByteDance, as is gaining popularity among teens all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>To take on TikTok, Meta-owned Instagram is testing out a new full-screen mode for its feed and an updated navigation bar.<\/p>\n<p>The test, which has been rolled out to &#8220;a limited number of people&#8221; according to Meta spokesperson Seine Kim, is the latest effort from the platform to compete with TikTok when it comes to social video.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook employees have reportedly been directed by the senior executives to change the platform&#8217;s algorithms to make it more like its arch Chinese rival TikTok that is gaining immense popularity among the teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>The other directive to employees is that years after Messenger and Facebook split up as separate apps, the two will be brought back together, mimicking TikTok&#8217;s messaging functionality.<\/p>\n<p>The company realises that its short-form video platform Reels is not enough to threaten TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok users are spending more time on the app than ever before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has clarified that it is not interested in copying Facebook as it is not a social network but an entertainment platform, as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeks to make Facebook and Instagram to be more like TikTok. Blake Chandlee, TikTok&#8217;s president of global business solutions, told CNBC that Facebook is a social platform. &#8220;They&#8217;ve built all their algorithms based on the social graph. That is their core competency. Ours is not,&#8221; Chandlee was quoted as saying. &#8220;We are an entertainment platform. The difference is significant. It&#8217;s a massive difference,&#8221; he added. TikTok is owned by China&#8217;s ByteDance, as is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}