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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicTikTok

Topic: TikTok

How to advertise on TikTok: Marketers chase billions of views in unknown terrain

Brands pay to promote a hashtag challenge for more people to see it, in the hope that TikTok’s users will create videos using the hashtag on their own, thereby increasing its reach.

Om Shanti Om to Helen: TikTok users are taking ‘man-woman’ Bollywood songs & going queer

From stolen kisses to doing drag, India’s TikTok users are showing how to be queer openly. Because when the times are a changin’, you will see it on TikTok.

400 million social media users are set to lose their anonymity in India

New guidelines expected to be out this month will require Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok to reveal users' identities if govt agencies ask them to.

TikTok rival Byte debuts at top of Apple’s US app store

Byte was downloaded more than 780,000 times over the weekend, with three quarters of those installs coming from the US.

ByteDance is looking for a new CEO for its TikTok business

The hiring of a new US-based CEO may be aimed at resolving security concerns raised by American politicians over the Chinese video app.

Vigo — the Chinese social media app where India’s cows & newlyweds’ PDA are going viral

Chinese social media app Vigo has been in the news with the alleged disappearance of one of its Indian stars.

Husband complains Vigo star-wife missing, she turns up on TV to say he forced her to flee

Pratima Mondal, who 'disappeared' on 2 January, says her husband pushed her into recording videos & uploading them on Vigo because they bring good money.

TikTok security flaws may have exposed user videos to hackers

The vulnerabilities could allow cyber-attackers to manipulate user accounts, from revealing personal data & deleting videos to sending texts on behalf of TikTok.

Leaders like Trump, Modi, Boris are keeping away from TikTok, but their personas exist

Concerns over security about the Chinese-owned app TikTok has created room for impersonators and fake accounts of world leaders to crop up.

TikTok received most number of content removal requests from Indian govt in 2019

Tranparency report released by Chinese firm's video-sharing app says India sent the highest number of legal requets too, followed by US and Japan.

On Camera

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.