Which US cities are trendiest on TikTok? Here are the top 10

Pop quiz: Where’s the most popular place in the U.S. — according to TikTok views?

Nope, not LA. It’s not NYC, either. It’s Miami!

With hopping nightlife, beautiful beaches and a whole lot of people filming vids, it makes sense to me. Portland Real Estate analyzed travel-related hashtags on TikTok for the most popular U.S. cities. 

Did your city make the top 10?

  1. Miami (52.3 billion views)
  2. Los Angeles (39 billion views)
  3. Chicago (34.4 billion views)
  4. Las Vegas (26 billion views)
  5. Houston (23.7 billion views)
  6. New York City (17.1 billion views)
  7. Dallas (15.7 billion views)
  8. Atlanta (15.4 billion views)
  9. Boston (12.9 billion views)
  10. Nashville (9.5 billion views)

🔥 No Phoenix? Hmm, I get it. If you try to film a video in the summer, your phone overheats and shuts down.

Cities and states that pay the most for IT and cybersecurity jobs

When I say I host a national tech radio show, you can imagine the questions I get. “Can you help me get my PC to turn on?” “Why is my phone doing this weird thing?” Sorry, my friends. I’m here for all your digital lifestyle questions, but leave the IT work to those pros.

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“My radio station used to carry your show, but this is a great replacement,” wrote Nancy in Miami, Florida. Now, friends, my free newsletter isn’t a replacement for my national award-winning radio show. The show is loaded with things you won’t find here, along with the best callers ever. Find my show on a radio station near you or as a podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Kendrick Lamar is somewhere laughing: Drake just dropped a 100GB folder of music, videos, photos and random content for his superfans. There are three unreleased tracks, but the bulk is behind-the-scenes footage of him making music, as well as storms in Miami. There are 13 videos of just rain and wind knocking around palm trees. Uh, neat.

$10,000 per month on AI girlfriends

That’s how much a Miami man is spending to text with bots. According to one tech exec, the first company to be “the AI version of Match Group” (owner of Tinder, Match, OkCupid, Hinge, Plenty of Fish and OurTime) will eventually be worth over $1 billion.

Study: These cities are targeted most by identity theft

Identity theft is no joke. The FTC reports 441,482 cases of credit card fraud in the U.S. last year alone.

All told, the Commission received 1.1 million total identity theft complaints.

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