As if you needed another app to post stories, TikTok is testing an ephemeral feature of its own. The popular video app is experimenting with TikTok Stories, as spotted by “social media consultant” Matt Navarra. A TikTok spokesperson also confirmed the test to the media. TikTok …
There was a time, not very long ago, when Microsoft was trying to purchase TikTok, and at the time the deal appeared incredibly bizarre, due to the mismatch in the company’s missions of productivity vs entertainment. It seems it would only take 6 months for everything …
Instagram will start hosting full-screen videos as part of a major shakeup of the social platform, as the Facebook-owned company seeks to make itself more relevant in an era dominated by TikTok and YouTube. That’s the major take-home from a video shared on Wednesday by Adam …
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok launched a new feature today that combines the existing duet and green screen formats, letting people use other TikToks as the background for their own. “Green Screen Duet” now appears as an option in the duet layout menu. …
TikTok is combining two of its most popular features: Duets and green screen. The result is a new feature called green screen duet. Confused? No worries – here is everything you need to know about the feature, including how exactly to green screen duet on TikTok. …
TikTok and Universal Music Group (UMG) have struck a new deal. Technically, the two companies are announcing a so-called “expanded global alliance”. It adds to an existing agreement that allows TikTok users to access songs from UMG’s full catalogue of artists. “The companies have additionally pledged …
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Italy’s data privacy authority has ordered video sharing app TikTok to temporarily block the accounts of any users whose ages can’t be confirmed, Reuters reported. The order comes after the death of a 10-year-old girl in Palermo, whose parents …
Facebook has officially announced its Collab app, which the social media platform previously launched as an experiment. To recall, Facebook started testing Collab, an invite-only beta, back in the month of May this year. TechCrunch was the first to report about the official launch of Collab. …
Musical.ly, created in 2014, was a music sharing app whose users would share short videos of themselves lip-synching to different music snippets. The platform was among the top 100 downloaded apps for two years straight, and users posted around 13 million videos per day. In 2018, …
