Jürgen Pfeffer
@jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social
Prof of Computational Social Science. SOT/TU Munich. Critical Data Studies, AI & Democracy, #CSS @ICWSM
"Fatalismus ist Sünde." hat beim gestrigen Event jemand zitiert. :)
September 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"Fatalismus ist Sünde." hat beim gestrigen Event jemand zitiert. :)
And here a photo from the data collection setup. :)
April 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
And here a photo from the data collection setup. :)
We find evidence of bot activity (e.g. users posting hundreds or event thousands of videos per hour). TikTok's counter strategy seems to be shadow-banning (average of 1.9 views for these videos).
arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279
arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279
Just Another Hour on TikTok: Reverse-engineering unique identifiers to obtain a complete slice of TikTok
TikTok is now a massive platform, and has a deep impact on global events. But for all the preliminary studies done on it, there are still issues with determining fundamental characteristics of the pla...
arxiv.org
April 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We find evidence of bot activity (e.g. users posting hundreds or event thousands of videos per hour). TikTok's counter strategy seems to be shadow-banning (average of 1.9 views for these videos).
arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279
arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279
Posts per capita show TikTok bans and very active countries.
April 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Posts per capita show TikTok bans and very active countries.
Some results:
- We estimate 117M videos on our collection day
- ~1,500 videos per second, ~86,000 per minute
- Two-peak per hour distribution deviates from Twitter/X
- Almost 20% of videos contain children
- We estimate 117M videos on our collection day
- ~1,500 videos per second, ~86,000 per minute
- Two-peak per hour distribution deviates from Twitter/X
- Almost 20% of videos contain children
April 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Some results:
- We estimate 117M videos on our collection day
- ~1,500 videos per second, ~86,000 per minute
- Two-peak per hour distribution deviates from Twitter/X
- Almost 20% of videos contain children
- We estimate 117M videos on our collection day
- ~1,500 videos per second, ~86,000 per minute
- Two-peak per hour distribution deviates from Twitter/X
- Almost 20% of videos contain children