How the TikTok side works
How the TikTok side works
The comment exchange is open and PowerSwap runs against it whatever the hour. Watch, Saves and Deep Dive are built and held for a member vote. Every threshold, multiplier and safety limit, with its configuration key.
The four exchanges
In the product's own rotation order. Watch leads and Saves sits immediately after it, because a save is only ever offered as the second step of a watch-then-save pair on the same video. One of the four has shipped; each card says which.
Watch
Built, not shipped One video, watched through.A matched creator opens your video in the TikTok app and watches it to the end. Watch time is the signal TikTok weighs most heavily and the one that costs a viewer the most. It is also the only one of the four whose price is not flat: a ninety-second video asks far more of a viewer than a twelve-second one, and the cost follows the ask.
- Room opens at
- 7 creators
- Spend multiplier
- 1× to 2.25× by length, up to 5.175× looped
- Status
- Held for a member vote
Saves
Built, not shipped One tap, on a video you were already watching.A save is never served on its own. It is offered only as the second step of a watch-then-save pair on the same video, because a burst of saves arriving with no watch time behind them is exactly the fingerprint automated-engagement detection looks for.
- Room opens at
- 7 creators
- Spend multiplier
- 0.5×
- Status
- Held for a member vote
Comments
Open Reading the video properly, then writing something true about it.A written comment is the highest-intent action on the board and the most visible one: it sits under your video where anyone scrolling past can read it. It also carries the most risk if done badly, which is why it is one of only two exchanges with a cap of its own, and the tighter of the two.
- Room opens at
- 7 creators
- Spend multiplier
- 1×
- Status
- Open to verified accounts
Deep Dive
Built, not shipped Three videos, watched end to end.A visit to your profile rather than to a single video: a matched creator opens your account and watches several videos through. It is the most expensive action on the board because it asks the most of the person performing it, and it is the only one aimed at the profile rather than a post.
- Room opens at
- 7 creators
- Spend multiplier
- 3.5×
- Status
- Held for a member vote
Delivery is confirmed by a combination of automated checks and pattern review, and every engagement can be disputed by the creator who was expecting it. Disputes carry screenshot proof, a right of reply and a human moderator, and the penalties run both ways — filing a false report costs the same as failing to deliver. Nothing on this page claims an engagement is verified when it is not.
13 pages, in order
The comment exchange
The comment exchange is the one TikTok exchange open today. A creator matched to your follower bracket and subject opens your video in the TikTok app, watches it, and writes a comment about...
The watch exchange
The watch exchange has a matched creator open your video in the TikTok app and watch it through — a watch-through, which is the signal TikTok weighs most heavily. It is built and tested and...
The save exchange
The save exchange is built and has not shipped. Its defining rule is that a save is never served alone: it is offered only as the second step of a watch-then-save pair on the same video, bec...
The deep dive exchange
A deep dive is a visit to your profile rather than to a single video: a matched creator opens your account and watches several videos end to end. It is priced at 3.5×, the most expensive act...
PowerSwap on TikTok
PowerSwap rotates you through the exchanges you have switched on in a single session, and pays one engagement better per point than running an exchange on its own — 6 actions per point on th...
Getting started on TikTok
Sign in without a password, give a TikTok handle, and prove you own it by leaving 5 real comments through the app. The wizard is 8 steps and 6 of them are Instagram's own. A new account can...
TikTok and Instagram on PodSwap, compared
Instagram is the full product: five exchanges open, PowerSwap, and every free tool on this site. TikTok is open with one of four exchanges shipped, PowerSwap offered, the same five-comment v...
How TikTok matching works
Matching weighs follower bracket first and subject second — the same order as the Instagram side, for the same reason. Two accounts of wildly different sizes cannot help each other: the smal...
Rooms and the headcount thresholds
Rooms are closed by default and open two ways: on a headcount, or at an announced time. All four TikTok rooms open at 7 creators, matching Instagram exactly. In a room of N each person can e...
Every safety rail, with its config key
Coordinated attention is detectable by its shape, not by any single action: forty identical actions in four minutes, saves arriving with no watch time, the same two accounts trading every da...
Verification, and what is read
You can connect a TikTok account today. Ownership is proved by leaving 5 real comments through the app — the same proof Instagram uses, run by the same wizard. No password is ever requested....
Points, and what each action costs
You earn points by engaging and spend them to receive. Actions are priced by the attention they cost the person performing them rather than by how many taps they take — a deep dive is three...
What was deliberately not built
A feature list read backwards. Nine mechanisms that exist on the Instagram side, or that any competitor would ship, are absent from the TikTok side — each for a stated reason. The shape of w...