TikTok Will Allow Researchers Access to Data

Popular social media platform TikTok made a move within the scope of its transparency goals last summer and introduced the research API. With this move, it was stated that it was aimed for people to access TikTok data more.

While the tests of the API have been going on since July, a new announcement came today. TikTok announced in its statement that it has expanded the scope of the API. Accordingly, in the US researchers from not-for-profit universitieswill be allowed to access the data.

Coming soon for researchers in other regions

While TikTok made this transparency move in July, “About content and activity on our platform increase the ease of access to public and anonymized data We are developing a research API for He used his statements and said that he plans to make it available to selected researchers in the near future. Today, it is seen that a step has been taken in this regard.

The platform provides ‘public and anonymized’ data such as comments, likes, favorites and search results from academics and researchers. To better understand TikTok trends and user activity will allow access. TikTok also says that access to the API will come to researchers in other regions in the coming months.

The transparency moves of the China-based platform come after growing concerns recently. We recently saw TikTok being labeled as a ‘national security concern’ in the US. The company was therefore taking similar steps to increase trust and give people insight into how the platform works.