The main points of analyzing TikTok accounts
TikTok, known in China as Douyin, is a platform to allow users to record and share
short videos as well as comment on other users' videos. TikTok is an international
version of Douyin, which was released in the Chinese market in September 2016. It
became available worldwide after merging with another Chinese social media service,
Musical.ly, on 2 August 2018.
Since tiktok was launched, it has been loved
by young people all over the world, and more and more global users are pouring into
the platform.
Main points of analysis of TikTok accounts
The user's profile will include all publicly viewable information in the
account, from which most of the information collected and analyzed.
A user's
TikTok profile can be viewed in a search engine by adding their username to the end
of the following URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@.
A user's profile contains
many information, including a profile photo, nickname, unique ID, description, the
account's total followers and people the account follows, as well as the number of
likes. Videos posted by the account are also included in the user profile.
The
people the target account follows are worth more than their followers because they
might know these people in real life or on another platform. This is the way to mine
the hidden social relationship.