If you are a regular user of Tiktok, you must know for a fact that this musical app is not just for making short music clips. Also not for making videos, lips-syncing, comedy, dance, and to showcase your talent through videos of 3 to 15 seconds, and short looping videos of 3 to 60 seconds.
Also, Tiktok is an amazing outlet for people to express themselves and their talent through dancing, singing, comedy, and lip-syncing. Not just this, but the catch is you a user can easily communicate with anyone he/she wants to just like other social media applications such as WhatsApp, Skype, Facebook, Instagram, and so on!
Tiktok not just only gives you an advantage of showcasing your talent but to keep updated and stay in touch with your loved ones too. With its new live streaming features like Facebook and Instagram, users can now go on live streaming easily and talk to your follower through the comments to stay connected with your follower online.
First, let us tell you what is live streaming?
Back in 2019, After Instagram’s new Live Streaming feature, Tiktok, a musical social networking app launched its new feature named Live. This feature was specially launched for content creators of the platform where they can easily communicate in real-time with their fans and followers.
The best thing about this live feature is that a user can cover a lot of content through live streaming since TikTok hasn’t yet restricted their duration. The live feature also helps a user to legitimize his account, if your live stream audience and followers send you virtual “gifts.”
If you are reading this article, we assume that you are already one of the users of Tiktok.
So here let’s dig deeper into this feature,
How to unlock Live Feature on Tiktok?
Not every account on Tiktok has a ‘Live’ feature enabled because of the requirements necessary to access the live stream feature. If a user is struggling to go live on Tiktok and he/she is not able to do so, then he/she may not have enabled their live feature, or the feature may not be available to them.
Here are some restrictions to keep in mind when a user wants to go on live broadcasting.
- A user must have an account with 1000 plus followers with age restrictions.
- Tiktok allows you to make an account if you are 13+ and you want to go on live streaming then the user must be at the age of minimum 16.
- Even if the user’s age is 15 years old or younger than that, the user will still not be able to enable the live feature on Tiktok.
- If a user wants to receive virtual gifts, he/she must be age 18, as mentioned above these virtual gifts help a user to monetize his account and these virtual gifts can be exchanged with real cash.
- Don’t worry if you aren’t 18 yet, you still have time to absorb your gratitude in comments.
How to End Live streaming?
- When a user is done live streaming, to end his live streaming he has to tap the X at the top of the screen to end your live broadcast.
- Then the user will be asked to confirm the ending of live streaming
- Then it doesn’t appear on the screen again as there’s a set time limit for TikTok live streams.
- Then the live stream will end.
How do you go to Live?
One of the most used features of Tik Tok is the Live after Duet feature. As mentioned above all the requirements are necessary to go on live. If the user meets these requirements he is ready to go on live. A person can easily go on live and start his live broadcasting within a few steps.
- Install the Tik Tok App on your mobile, whether you are an Android user or an iPhone user.
- Open the app, then make an account of your own, if you already have one then login with your existing account.
- Tap the plus (+) sign and it is located at the bottom-center section of the screen of the application.
- Swipe left at the bottom button until it shows ‘Live’ next to the ‘Record’ option.
- You can easily add the ‘Cover Photo’ or the description of your live stream if you want to.
- Then select the “Go Live” button to start.
- Then after a three-second countdown, you will be live.
- You can add different kinds of filters and stickers to your live streaming.
Where is the Live Button?
The live button is located at the bottom-center section of the screen of the application that is next to the ‘Record’ option but if a user is having trouble finding the Live feature or can not see the live button appearing on his/her screen then, he/she probably have not met the conditions laid down by TikTok for live streamers.
Do Live streamers get paid for going live on TikTok?
Users are making a good amount of money from Tiktok with their feature ‘Live’. Tiktok is also the platform to collect donations from live stream viewers. Having a live session with your followers enables you to contact your audience and followers in real-time which is a great way of making money. Tiktok with its paid media strategy and user acquisition helps the users to promote their talents as well as earn a good amount of money showcasing their talent which led the users to success through mobile. Not just it, but people can also advertise their products during the live session and followers to visit their profile to purchase it for them.