Find the secret TikTok account of Mark Zuckerberg, who tracks celebrities and dogs

Mark Zuckerberg is clearly watching the development of his rival TikTok, so much so that he has quietly created an account on the platform that is attracting teenage users around the world.

A BuzzFeed newsletter on Wednesday revealed that, in 2016, Facebook entered negotiations to acquire Musical.ly, the lip-syncing app that could be considered the "grandfather" of TikTok. It didn't work out, and in 2017, Musical.ly was acquired by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, then merged with their short video app, Douyin, to form TikTok. .

BuzzFeed also found that Zuckerberg has a personal TikTok account called "@finkd".

This account has not been verified on TikTok, but it is linked to Zuckerberg's Instagram account. The Facebook CEO also uses the "@finkd" name on his Twitter account, which already has a confirmation mark.

There are no videos of Mark Zuckerberg's TikTok account

It seems that Zuckerberg exists like a ghost on TikTok. This account has 4,055 followers and has no activity, including videos and likes.

Zuckerberg follows celebrities like Jason Derulo and Ariana Grande

Zuckerberg only followed 61 people on TikTok – 58 of them had a green tick, authenticated accounts or popular content creators' accounts.

These green ticked accounts are a collection of celebrities, official accounts, and TikTok teenage users (the majority on this platform).

Zuckerberg followed Ariana Grande on TikTok

Some outstanding TikTok accounts that Mark Zuckerberg follows include:

– Famous musicians: Jason Derulo, Bruno Mars, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Olly Murs and Gwen Stefani.

– Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal.

– TikTok superstars such as Loren Gray (34.9 million followers), Baby Ariel (29.9 million followers), Jacob Sartorius (21 million followers), Lucas and Marcus Dobre (18.1 million followers) follow), Danielle Cohn (14.5 million followers).

– Jiffpom, Pomeranian dog with 19.5 million followers.

– Three accounts without ticks are: "Fashion Videos" (7 million followers), a podcaster named Russ Turner (193,000 followers), an account that seems to belong to a teenage girl (406,000 people) follow).

TikTok has now become a major threat to Facebook, being a favorite platform of the Z generation, while young people increasingly leave Facebook and the amount of interaction on the platform is also greatly reduced.

Zuckerberg had previously talked about the competition Facebook is facing from TikTok, that the strategy now needs to be focused on new markets where TikTok has yet to become a prominent name.

Reference: BusinessInsider