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Madonna appears to come out as gay on TikTok
Madonna appears to come out as gay on TikTok

"I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong," she said in a 1991 profile for Advocate.

  • Tuesday, 11 October 2022
Famous singer cheats on pregnant wife, mistress reveals it on TikTok
Famous singer cheats on pregnant wife, mistress reveals it on TikTok

Sumner said in her TikTok video, "I was having an affair with a man who's married to Victoria's Secret model."

  • Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Teen girls find it more difficult to give up social media than boys
Teen girls find it difficult to give up Tiktok, Instagram and Facebook than boys

When asked about the idea of giving up social media, 54 per cent of teens say it would be at least somewhat hard to give it up, while 46 per cent say it would be at least somewhat easy.

  • Saturday, 13 August 2022
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TikTok Rival Dubsmash Dies Quietly

Popular online discussion platform Reddit, which acquired short-form video social platform Dubsmash late last year, has finally shut down the platform.

  • Wednesday, 23 February 2022
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Soon Retweet With TikTok-Like Reaction Videos On Twitter

The feature is similar to TikTok's video replies, which Instagram recently copied for its Reels feature.

  • Friday, 07 January 2022
Chingari App Crosses 107Mn Downloads On Play Store
Chingari App Crosses 107Mn Downloads On Play Store

The company earlier revealed that the app witnessed around 100,000 downloads per hour at one point. Chingari app also registered 500,000 downloads within just 72 hours.

  • Friday, 24 December 2021
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TikTok Emerges As Most Downloaded Non-Gaming App Worldwide For Oct

Last year, the Indian government said it was banning 59 apps developed by Chinese firms, including ByteDance's TikTok and PUBG Mobile over concerns that these apps were engaging in activities that threatened national security.

  • Sunday, 07 November 2021
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ByteDance Selling TikTok AI To Companies Including In India

China-based ByteDance which is the parent company of TikTok, has reportedly started selling the AI technology of the short video-making app to other companies, including in India where the app is banned.

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Ban TikTok for encouraging pornography: Madras HC

Chennai/New Delhi: The Madras High Court has asked the Centre to ban the Chinese video mobile application TikTok, saying it “encourages pornography” and is spoiling the future of youths and minds of children. The court said inappropriate content was being provided by the TikTok app, owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance, and the government had […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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80% youngsters want TikTok banned in India: Survey

New Delhi: Eight out of 10 millennials living in India want the controversial Chinese video app TikTok to be banned, reveals a survey by news app Inshorts. This comes after the Madras High Court last week advised the Central government to ban the app claiming it was encouraging pornography among youngsters. The court said that […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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TikTok added nearly 9 cr Indian users in Q1: Report

New Delhi: Despite facing flak for sleazy content on its platform, Chinese video sharing app TikTok is continuing its dramatic rise in India, adding 8.86 crore users in the first quarter of 2019, according to a new report. This was 8.2 times more new installs than TikTok saw in the country in Q1 of last […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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Tiktok's 'Rise' and 'Ban' in India

New Delhi: The rise of the Chinese short video-sharing app TikTok in India has been so spectacular over the past year that it is now nearly impossible for any social media user to not have come across its content. These user-created videos that often contain memes, lip-syncing songs and sometimes sleazy posts regularly find ways to […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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Google, Apple block TikTok download in India

New Delhi: Google and Apple have blocked the download of TikTok from Play Store and App Store respectively in India, following a request from the government to ban access to the Chinese short video-sharing app that has been downloaded over 230 million times in the country. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had asked Google […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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Why TikTok ban may not have the desired results

New Delhi: With crores of people in India already using TikTok and all of them having the option to share the app with others, blocking its access on Google Play Store and Apple App Store may not have the desired results, say experts. TikTok, which is very popular among children, is facing criticism from different […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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TikTok's parent ByteDance plans USD 1 billion investment in India in next 3 years

New Delhi: Unfazed by the ban on TikTok in India, the popular Chinese short video app’s parent ByteDance remains “very optimistic” and plans to invest USD 1 billion in the country over the next three years. ByteDance — touted to be among the world’s most valuable startups with investors like SoftBank, General Atlantic, KKR and […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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