TikTok's Wild Ride
The TikTok ride this past 24 hours (with it going offline and then this morning coming back online) seems entirely theatrical and setting Trump up to be seen as the savior. Blah blah blah.
I already want off the ride that the next four years is sure to be.
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Jeopardy on TikTok & a Country Question
I have discovered Jeopardy! clips categories and final Jeopardy! on their TikTok account and it is delightful.
Mostly.
I was immensely annoyed that they had one which ended before the 2nd answer was given and thus before the answer was revealed. I had to Google the question.
The question-err-answer was: "This is one of two countries in the world which ends in H, and is among the ten most populous countries in the world." Or some similar wording, but containing those tidbits.
I spent a moment trying to think of the answer on my own. If you want to try and figure it out, stop reading as I'm about to spoil the answer-err-question.
Bangladesh.
I didn't come up with it. H as the last letter in an English word almost always means it is part of a dipthong. SH, CH, TH, etc. I tried to come up with the country, and this was obviously the correct logic to go, but interestingly the population tidbit through me off.
I tried counting countries by population. India, China, USA, Brazil... and from there it gets murky for me. No H there.
So I was unsuccessful and had to Google it. Doing so, I was gratified to see likely others had similar been annoyed as Google suggested "Countries ending in H Jeopardy" as the search query. I wasn't alone.
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Meta has a lot of ground to make up as it chases Tiktok with Instagram
Instagram users cumulatively are spending 17.6 million hours a day watching Reels, less than one-tenth of the 197.8 million hours TikTok users spend each day on that platform, according to a document reviewed by The Wall Street Journal that summarizes internal Meta research.
The document, titled "Creators x Reels State of the Union 2022," was published internally in August. It said that Reels engagement had been falling—down 13.6% over the previous four weeks—and that "most Reels users have no engagement whatsoever."
One reason is that Instagram has struggled to recruit people to make content. Roughly 11 million creators are on the platform in the U.S., but only about 2.3 million of them, or 20.7%, post on that platform each month, the document said.
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"Google exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Google's core products, Search and Maps"
The TikTok threat to Google’s business isn’t just limited to YouTube, as it turns out. Core Google services, including Search and Maps, are also being impacted by a growing preference for social media and videos as the first stop on younger users’ path to discovery, a Google exec acknowledged today, speaking at an industry event.
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What Is ‘Cheugy’? You Know It When You See It. (Published 2021)
I'm leaving the auto generated summary as a bit of blog history, being the first link post to be automatically published from my Wallabag utilizing new code for identifying keywords and writing a summary. It is a good proof that this system is imperfect but, I think, still useful. We will see how this functionality grows.
[Auto Generated Summary]:
“It’s really easy to identify cheugy things on TikTok because TikTok is so fast paced and there’s so many trends that come and go,” said Ms. Siegel. “I see stuff and I’m like, this is so overdone so I think it’s cheugy. Whereas if I didn’t see it on my ‘For You’ page, I wouldn’t think it was cheugy,” she said, referring to what is essentially the TikTok home page. And for any millennials worried about being behind the trends, Ms.
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