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I don't mean to cause offense, but maybe you haven't built a following yet? I see plenty of Lives with 0 viewers.

by willdr 3y ago

jaggederest 3y ago
Just out of curiosity, how would you build a following if none of your videos ever receives any views? I'm not someone who uses the tikity tok but it seems like an intractable problem.
- jonny_eh 3y ago
  Share your videos as a response to a comment on HN.
  - TeMPOraL 3y ago
    In other words: be a spammer. Yay, incentives on social media sites are totally not perverted.
    - pjc50 3y ago
      The problem is that "getting people to see your stuff" is the route to monetization, and therefore is horribly choked with spam that stacks the odds against real humans.
- yowlingcat 3y ago
  Leave noteworthy comments on other peoples videos, make noteworthy stitches of theirs. Embrace remix culture, essentially. It only seems like an intractable problem to non power users of social media.
  - jaggederest 3y ago
    What if those videos also receive no views? Serious question, I don't know how Tiktok works well enough to intuit.
    - noAnswer 3y ago
      Search for "zero views" on Youtube.
    - yowlingcat 3y ago
      If those videos receive no views, then it means the concept of the stitch wasn't compelling. Practically speaking -- just do it over and over again until you find something that does work. Some people have a knack for making content that goes viral, but for most folks, it's a muscle that needs to be learned through lots of practice, with a lot of early going seemingly bearing little fruit until the inflection point is reached.
    - deleted 3y ago
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khalilravanna 3y ago
I think at least initially TikTok would push traffic to new accounts. My first few videos got a bunch of likes/views even though I had 0 followers. And then I noticed it started to trickle down video after video even though (subjectively) the content remained largely the same. It’s a clever mechanism to increase stickiness for new users as well as detect early on if a new content producer has that Good Shit that will do mega views.
qingcharles 3y ago
No, on a regular account TikTok's algorithm will always send a few dozen viewers to any new video or any LIVE just to get feedback from users (e.g. playtime, likes, faves, shares etc). I have an old account with almost 4000 followers. TikTok just woke up one day and hated me. Hopefully it has a timeout on it.

I don't mean to cause offense, but maybe you haven't built a following yet? I see plenty of Lives with 0 viewers.

by willdr 3y ago

I don't mean to cause offense, but maybe you haven't built a following yet? I see plenty of Lives with 0 viewers.

Just out of curiosity, how would you build a following if none of your videos ever receives any views? I'm not someone who uses the tikity tok but it seems like an intractable problem.

jonny_eh 3y ago
Share your videos as a response to a comment on HN.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago
  In other words: be a spammer. Yay, incentives on social media sites are totally not perverted.
  - pjc50 3y ago
    The problem is that "getting people to see your stuff" is the route to monetization, and therefore is horribly choked with spam that stacks the odds against real humans.
yowlingcat 3y ago
Leave noteworthy comments on other peoples videos, make noteworthy stitches of theirs. Embrace remix culture, essentially. It only seems like an intractable problem to non power users of social media.
- jaggederest 3y ago
  What if those videos also receive no views? Serious question, I don't know how Tiktok works well enough to intuit.
  - noAnswer 3y ago
    Search for "zero views" on Youtube.
  - yowlingcat 3y ago
    If those videos receive no views, then it means the concept of the stitch wasn't compelling. Practically speaking -- just do it over and over again until you find something that does work. Some people have a knack for making content that goes viral, but for most folks, it's a muscle that needs to be learned through lots of practice, with a lot of early going seemingly bearing little fruit until the inflection point is reached.
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]

khalilravanna 3y ago

I think at least initially TikTok would push traffic to new accounts. My first few videos got a bunch of likes/views even though I had 0 followers. And then I noticed it started to trickle down video after video even though (subjectively) the content remained largely the same. It’s a clever mechanism to increase stickiness for new users as well as detect early on if a new content producer has that Good Shit that will do mega views.

qingcharles 3y ago

No, on a regular account TikTok's algorithm will always send a few dozen viewers to any new video or any LIVE just to get feedback from users (e.g. playtime, likes, faves, shares etc). I have an old account with almost 4000 followers. TikTok just woke up one day and hated me. Hopefully it has a timeout on it.