WAYS TO SEE WHO SHARED YOUR TIKTOK VIDEOS

TikTok is a fun video-centric platform with lots of users across the world. If you’re a staunch fan of funny short videos, chances are that you use TikTok or often come across videos shared from TikTok by others.

One thing anyone can’t gainsay about TikTok is that it’s a vastly popular medium where you can establish engagement for your exciting short videos. And if you seem to have churned out a great deal of TikTok content, you might want to know if other TikTok users have shared the content.

Because you might also want to know the identities of those behind your TikTok video shares, we’re tempted to discuss the top ways you can see who shared your TikTok videos.

Unfortunately, however, the feature that lets you see who shared your TikTok video is no longer available. What you can see instead is the number of shares your TikTok video has garnered. Later in this post, you’ll also see how you can leverage the TikTok Pro account to generate user info about those who shared your TikTok videos.

Finding out the Share Stats of Your TikTok Videos

Here are the steps to find out the “share” stats of your TikTok videos:

• Open the TikTok app on your smartphone
• Within the app screen, scroll to the Profile option and click it
• Scroll to the top right-hand corner and click the hamburger icon. This icon looks like a stack of three horizontal lines
• Select the Creator Tools option
• Then choose Analytics from the emerging options
• Within the Analytics section, scroll to the Engagement option and view Shares
• You may as well click the Content tab, locate the TikTok video whose “share” stats you want to see and click the video
• On the information page that shows up, you can identify the number of shares the TikTok video has garnered by looking under the side-facing arrow on the right-hand side of your screen. Whatever figure you find beneath this arrow represents the number of times the video has been shared

Note: If it’s your first time exploring the Analytics feature of your TikTok, it’s presumable that you’re yet to activate this (analytics) function. The implication here is that you won’t find any additional stats for the TikTok videos you did before activating this feature. In that case, you’ll have to activate the feature so that it can begin generating stats, including the number of shares your videos have garnered.

Why You Can’t See the Profiles of Those Who Shared Your TikTok Videos?

Previously, a TikTok user could leverage the TikTok Pro account to see the identity of who shared their TikTok videos. That way, it was possible for that user to see the profile of those who shared their TikTok videos. Since this is no longer possible on TikTok, you might just have to stop getting curious about the identities of those who shared your TikTok videos.

TikTok’s reason for preventing you from seeing the profiles of those who shared your videos seemingly borders on the need to protect users’ privacy.

The essence of Seeing the Number of Shares Your TikTok Videos Have Garnered

If you’re hell-bent on becoming a TikTok sensation, it’s important for your videos to go viral. On your journey to TikTok popularity, you’ll most likely want to know how well you have performed. This might just be the major reason why you should see the number of shares your TikTok videos have garnered.

Meanwhile, having a high number of views, shares and/or likes is a really promising sign; it implies that people are viewing your TikTok content and that you’re probably getting noticed by more people.

Steps to Enable TikTok Video Sharing

Having shown you how to see the number of shares your TikTok video has garnered, we’d also like to show you how to enable TikTok video sharing. But before that, you should note that you’re probably yet to activate some settings if you or others are unable to share your TikTok videos.

So, here are the steps to follow in order to enable TikTok video sharing:

• Open the TikTok app on your smartphone
• Within the app screen, scroll to the Profile option and click it
• Scroll to the top right-hand corner and click the hamburger icon. This icon looks like a stack of three horizontal lines
• Scroll to and click the Settings and Privacy option
• Then select Privacy
• Within this Privacy, you’ll have to set your profile to “public” so that your TikTok videos can be shared by others. To do this, just scroll to the Private account option at the top of the Privacy Slide the toggle therein to the right-hand side in order to activate it

How about Sharing My TikTok Videos to non-TikTok users?

It’s pretty easy to share your TikTok videos to your friends or audience who aren’t using TikTok. If you’re sure that such people would be excited to see hilarious videos, nothing should stop you from sharing your rib-cracking TikTok content to them.

Below are the steps to share TikTok videos to non-TikTok users:

• Open the TikTok app on your smartphone
• Within the app screen, scroll to the Profile option and click it
• Locate and click the TikTok video that you want to share
• Scroll to the top right-hand corner and click the hamburger icon. This icon looks like a stack of three horizontal lines
• A variety of “sharing” options will show up. It’s up to you to select your preferred option for sharing the TikTok video to non-TikTok users

Generating Info about Who Shared Your TikTok Videos: How to Switch to a TikTok Pro Account

Notwithstanding that TikTok’s privacy protection now prevents you from knowing the specific individual who shared your TikTok video, it’s very possible to see audience insights, including the ages, countries, demographics, etc., of those who shared your videos.

If you need such audience insights, probably while researching audience engagement for your TikTok brand, you should consider switching to a TikTok Pro account.

Here’s how to switch to the TikTok Pro account and see (information about) who shared your TikTok videos:

• Open the TikTok app on your smartphone
• Select the Profile icon
• Scroll to the top right-hand side and click the three horizontal lines therein
• Clicking those lines will show up a menu where you can switch from a personal TikTok account to the Pro account
• Select the option that lets you perform the account switch. Meanwhile, switching to the Pro account lets you have access to the “TikTok Pro Account Insights”
• After the account switch, navigate to the Analytics section of the account
• Then click the Shares option therein
• Now, you can access the audience information about each of your TikTok videos. Though you won’t know the exact people who shared your TikTok videos, you can access important details –including ages, demographics, general info, and countries –about them

FAQs

Can I See the Profile of Who Shared My TikTok Video?

As mentioned earlier in this post, TikTok now adopts privacy protection to such a “strict” extent that the video platform doesn’t reveal the profile of who shared your TikTok video. This is perhaps why it’s impossible to view the actual identities of those behind your TikTok video shares.

Can I Share a Video from My TikTok to Other Platforms?

Yes. If you open your TikTok app and locate one of your videos within the app, you’ll find a Share menu that lets you share the video to other platforms including Facebook.

Can I Set TikTok to Notify Me about Video Shares?

Were this available, it would be a nice feature. But at the moment, we don’t think TikTok sends users notifications when others share their videos. To know if a particular TikTok video of yours has garnered a new share, your best bet is to use the Analytics feature we discussed earlier in this post.

Conclusion

If you find it disappointing that TikTok no longer allows users to see the exact people (by viewing such people’s profiles) who shared their videos, we advise that you leverage the TikTok Pro account to at least generate insights –such as countries, demographics, ages, etc. –about your TikTok audience including those who shared your videos.

References:

https://www.lifewire.com/see-who-shared-your-tiktok-5271091#:~:text=Open%20TikTok%20and%20tap%20Profile,who%20has%20shared%20your%20video.

https://growfollowing.com/see-who-shared-your-tiktok/