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Answer & explanation
The official answer, with Fermi’s reasoning step by step.
Answer & explanation
Official answer
190,000
videos
How to estimate it
Fermi’s official “Napkin math”
TikTok has something like 1.5 billion users. Most don't post on a given day, but say 1 in 10 does, and the keen ones post more than once, so call it 2 each. Spread that across the 1,440 minutes in a day.
- TikTok users
- 1,500,000,000
- Post something today
- ~1 in 10
- Posts each
- × 2
- 300M/day ÷ 1,440
- ≈ 210,000
Rounded assumptions may give a slightly different estimate. The official answer above is the game’s reference value.
Source calculation & reference
- TikTok posts in one day (full-day sample)
- ≈ 269 M
- Minutes in a day
- ÷ 1,440
- 269 M ÷ 1,440
- ≈ 190,000
Reference cited by Fermi: Steel et al. 2026, "Just Another Hour on TikTok"
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