How to teach TikTok what you like to watch
by Kaitlin Hatton from The Verge - All Posts on (#5M4ZZ)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For those who may not yet be familiar with it, TikTok is a different type of social media platform. Unlike more traditional platforms like Instagram or Twitter where you manually curate your feeds by choosing to follow others - most likely, people you know - TikTok uses an algorithm to curate a highly personalized feed of videos. This algorithm can get shockingly specific as it gathers the videos it thinks you'll like.
TikTok's main page is named the For You page - and that really means for you. For instance, after I'd been on TikTok for a while, the algorithm figured out that I'm a grown-up emo kid (it was never a phase, Mom) who is trying to learn French, spends too much time playing The Sims 4, and is also queer. But TikTok's...