Viral Frozen Egg Trend on TikTok Prompts FDA and USDA Warnings About Salmonella Risk

A critical detail from FDA and USDA guidance: freezing does not kill bacteria already present. If salmonella or other pathogens were on or inside the egg before it went into the freezer, they survive ...

The Chinese water hack TikTokkers swear makes them thinner — and helps them poop

TikTok users are trading in their iced lattes for a new go-to drink to start the day, claiming a simple water hack has ...
SheKnows

Trader Joe’s Dropped A Flavorful New Cream Cheese & TikTok Is Using It In The Most Unconventional, Yet Delicious Way

One of the greatest things about TikTok is they give us ideas, tips, and hacks we didn’t even know we needed. Case in point: the way TikTokers transformed a new Trader Joe’s cream cheese flavor into a ...
THE WEEK

Chinamaxxing: the American trend co-opting and romanticizing Chinese culture

Even though relations between China and America remain tense, many young Americans’ perspectives seem to be shifting as they adopt Chinese cultural habits. The online trend, dubbed Chinamaxxing, has ...
The Irish Times

Kesha at 3Arena review: Tik Tok singer walked so the modern pop girl could run

It has been 14 years since the American singer-songwriter Kesha – formerly Ke$ha – played in Dublin. The crowd at 3Arena on Saturday night is full of people who ...
Irish Central

Conradh Na Gaeilge partners with Tik Tok as Irish use surges on social media platform

For the third year running, Conradh na Gaeilge, Gael Linn and TikTok have joined forces to celebrate Lá na Teicneolaíochta (Technology Day) today as part of the Seachtain na Gaeilge 2026 festivities.
Mashable

The TikTok outage cause revealed

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Marketing Dive

For retail brands, TikTok Shop’s rise brings viral success — and disruption

NEW YORK — TikTok has drawn droves of marketers for its ability to turn products of all stripes, from Stanley tumblers to cranberry juice, into viral sensations. Since the social platform launched its ...
Engadget

TikTok announces shared feed and collections features

TikTok just announced a couple of updates that that should make the app a bit more social. There's something called Shared Feed, which is exactly what it sounds like. It's a feed that friends and ...
The New York Times

What the ‘Bird Theory’ Reveals About Your Relationship

Experts weigh in on whether those viral TikTok tests are a real litmus for a couple’s connection. By Catherine Pearson Layne Berthoud, an occupational therapist who lives in Los Angeles, did not ...
The Verge

TikTok can use AI to turn your long video into short ones

Smart Split automatically turns videos longer than a minute into bite-size clips reframed vertically for phones. Smart Split automatically turns videos longer than a minute into bite-size clips ...
Business Insider

There's a ton of investing advice on TikTok. Most of it is bad, a new study says.

TikTok is awash in investing advice. Investors should be wary, though. A study shows that much of the advice on the platform is misleading. That poses a danger, especially to younger investors who are ...