MAKE TIME FOR #BOOKTOK
Let’s talk about #BookTok. Face it, if you’re reading Writing Magazine, you probably only know that TikTok is a social media platform like Twitter, but for video. While Tweets can be no longer than 280 characters, TikTok videos have to be between 15 seconds and three minutes. Then there’s BookTok, not actually a website/app, but a hashtag for labelling book-related videos on TikTok. The reason it’s worth knowing this is that since TikTok launched videos tagged with the #BookTok hashtag have been viewed almost six billion times.