RibbonGG

Our first blog post is now live!
https://www.ribbon.gg/blog/tiktok-us-ban-alternatives

Given the platform's focus on TikTok as our primary data source, we've been closely following the world news around governments deciding to ban TikTok due to privacy concerns.

We decided to do some market research on the most likely apps to replace TikTok as an alternative if it were to be banned in the U.S. and came up with this list of the 6 best alternatives.

Using Prismic (prismic.io) as our headless CMS, we built out our blog, now live at at https://www.ribbon.gg/blog. We chose Prismic over Wordpress because we wanted to host our blog on our main site for SEO, and didn't want to deal with the reverse proxying required. Also, with a technical founding team, using a more technical solution made sense.

On our blog we'll be posting about TikTok statistics, trends, and news about the platform generally. Our first blog post is in the works and coming soon!

For all top profiles and user tracked profiles, engagement rates are now updated every 24 hours.

We calculate engagement rate per post using the formula
(likes + comments + shares) / followers.

Then, to calculate the engagement rate of a user on TikTok, we take the engagement rate of the most recent 30 posts and average them. Because the most recent 30 posts are constantly updated, we recalculate every day.

The engagement rates are now reflected on both user profiles and the overall user dashboard.