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Does TikTok distribute videos based on where you are located?
Posted by on March 14, 2026 at 1:50 amI recently started a TikTok account where I share my experience living abroad in my native language.
I expected my videos to reach people in my home country who are curious about what life is like here. But most of the people watching and commenting seem to be people from my same country who already live here too. They comment things like “I felt the same when I moved here.”
It feels like TikTok is mainly showing my videos to people in the country where I currently live rather than people back home.
Does TikTok prioritize showing videos based on the creator’s location at first? Or will the algorithm eventually reach people in other countries who speak the language? -
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If you don’t have a following, your video will be shared first to those around you, and then once you have an account that TikTok understands, share based on interests. If the people around you don’t like your videos though, it will likely not be shared more widely.
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I don’t think so.. I also created a TikTok account just last December and in the first month all of my followers are foreigners and not from the Philippines up until now, my account is 4 months old most of my followers are still foreigners.
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Yeah it’s very local. Some people do mainly have international audience though, so I think over time you can train it with continually using hashtags, topic matter etc. always targeting at that country. Have you tried location tagging to the country you’re speaking to ?
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