About TikTok and Geo-location...

[nikocadoavocado]

I'm in Europe, 90% of my costumers are from the USA.

I know Tiktok is mainly SFW, but would love to start an account to have some fun in the platform and at the same time get my SW persona out there!

Thing is... Tiktok is sneaky - and at the time of the registration and uploading the app it will track your location by several ways: including IP and SIM card's country code. The reason being because their algorithm believes what will be best for you to watch is content in your own area.

I tried basically everything there is to prevent associating my Tiktok account to my country (for privacy reasons). I made an account with a VPN, uploaded the app using a VPN, even asked an american model (who was an angel for helping me out, btw) to make an account for me there in the USA.

Nothing worked, I couldn't fool the system lol. I'm still seeing my own country's trending hashtags and I get push notifications from random tiktokers in my country.

I'm really afraid that once I start making content, it will be recommended to my country, plus I wanted to target it to the USA.

Does anyone have any experience with Tiktok? Does the algorithm changes with time, so you only get views from other locations? What are your overall thoughts?

Thank you in advance!

 

[veronicarose]

I agree with the ppl from above, you can't escape the internal GPS system. You can put these things in balance and see if it is worth it or not . Glad that only TikTok has this system... annoying af!