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TikTok Users Can Apply to Make $US1,000 ($1,388) to Watch Trending Content
Watching endless TikTok videos will become a lucrative pastime for the three social media users who land a job that will pay them to continuously scroll through the app. Ubiquitous, an influencer marketing agency, announced it will pay $US100 ($139) per hour for successful applicants to scroll through TikTok for 10 hours straight searching for “emerging…
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Behind the Scenes, TikTok Employees Are Pulling the Strings of Virality
Hitting the viral internet jackpot might seem like a combination of algorithm and luck (with, sure, a dose of talent or skill). But it’s not all the result of a pre-programmed black box of computer coded decision making. Employees at TikTok and ByteDance reportedly have a hidden tool up their sleeves: a feature internally referred…
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Can TikTok Take on Amazon at Its Own Game?
You may know TikTok as the platform responsible for popularising viral teen dance moves and constantly bringing Republican lawmakers’ blood to a boil, but newly posted job listings reveal a potentially new direction for the company: e-commerce giant.
