{"id":35429,"date":"2021-07-02T14:23:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T10:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=35429"},"modified":"2021-07-02T14:24:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T10:24:12","slug":"tiktok-expands-max-video-length-to-3-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/07\/02\/tiktok-expands-max-video-length-to-3-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok expands max video length to 3 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TikToks are about to get longer. The app is now rolling out the ability for everyone to publish videos up to three minutes in length, three times the existing one-minute limit. The extension is meant to give creators more flexibility while filming and limit the need for multi-part posts \u2014 though I suspect creators love hooking users that way and will keep breaking up stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three-minute videos have been in testing at least since December, and it\u2019s been easy to come across them when scrolling through videos from top TikTok creators, particularly in categories like cooking. Longer videos were limited to select users, though, but they\u2019ll now be rolling out to everyone on TikTok \u201cover the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TikTok didn\u2019t say how longer clips might affect its much-loved recommendation algorithm. But it\u2019s worth considering the possible parallels to YouTube: as the platform grew, YouTube biased its algorithm toward viewer retention, which meant longer and longer videos \u2014 it\u2019s why just about everything on YouTube is over 10 minutes long now. TikTok may not take the same approach, but if it turns out that longer videos = longer TikTok usage, we might see less of the app\u2019s short, snappy, and strange viral clips.<br><br>The Verge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikToks are about to get longer. The app is now rolling out the ability for everyone to publish videos up to three minutes in length, three times the existing one-minute limit. The extension is meant to give creators more flexibility while filming and limit the need for multi-part posts \u2014 though I suspect creators love &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35432,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35429\/revisions\/35432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}