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Data mining analytics investigation on TikTok users' behaviors: social media app development

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LIBRARY HI TECH
Volume -, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/LHT-08-2022-0368

Keywords

TikTok; Social media; Social media apps; Social development and social informatics; Media and technology innovation; Data mining analytics

Funding

  1. National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, Republic of China [MOST 111-2410-H-032-017-MY2]

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This study focuses on TikTok users in Taiwan and analyzes user profiles and social media app development patterns through data mining and association rules' analysis. The findings indicate that social media apps are a valuable research topic in online social media development.
Purpose TikTok, a social media application (app), was originally positioned as a short music video community suitable for young users, and the app is user-generated content (UGC) short video of vertical music. Users can make their own creative videos. Following the rhythm of the music, users can shoot various video content, personal talents, life records, performances, dances, plot interpretations, etc. However, what are the profiles and preferences of TikTok users, whereby the social media app is mainly developed by UGC? What is the impact of TikTok on the development of social media? In addition, what is UGC's social media model for user interactions in social networks? The purpose of this paper is to address and study these proposed issues. Design/methodology/approach All questionnaire items are designed as nominal and ordinal scales (not Likert scale). The obtained data from questionnaires are put into the relational database (N = 2,011). This empirical study takes Taiwan TikTok users as the research object, implements data mining analytics to generate user profiles through clustering analysis and further uses association rules' analysis to analyze social media apps in social network interaction and social apps' development by proposing two patterns and several meaningful rules. Findings This study finds that social media apps is a valuable practical research topic on online social media development. In addition, besides the TikTok, the authors eagerly await subsequent research to provide more valuable findings of social media apps in both theory and practice. Originality/value This study presents the research evidences that social media apps such as TikTok will be able to transcend the current development pattern of social media and make good use of the media and technology innovation of apps in social development and social informatics.

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