Chinese Video Sensation TikTok Surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube in Downloads Last Month (techcrunch.com) 33
An app you may have never heard about is growing at an impressive rate. From a report: Beijing-based ByteDance's 2017 acquisition of tween and teen-focused social app Musical.ly is paying off. The company this year merged Musical.ly with its own short video app TikTok as a means of entering the U.S. market. Today, the result of that merger is sitting at the top of the U.S. App Store, ahead of Facebook. More importantly, it recently surpassed Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat in monthly installs for the first time in September.
According to data from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower, TikTok's installs were higher than those of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube in the U.S. last month. It surpassed the four other apps in terms of daily downloads on September 29, with 29.7 percent the downloads from this cohort of apps, the firm says. Further reading: China's King of Internet Fluff Wants to Conquer the World.
According to data from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower, TikTok's installs were higher than those of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube in the U.S. last month. It surpassed the four other apps in terms of daily downloads on September 29, with 29.7 percent the downloads from this cohort of apps, the firm says. Further reading: China's King of Internet Fluff Wants to Conquer the World.
All right! (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like a great place to post my Falun Gong and Free Tibet videos!
Re: (Score:2)
Sounds like a great place to post my Falun Gong and Free Tibet videos!
Do they let Americans sign up for this? If so, Republicans who stick to domestic topics the Chinese don't care about can use Tik-Tok as an alternative to the Facebook 1984 they have been ejected from.
News! (Score:5, Informative)
Country with most people has largest number of people doing something!
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Also new things get more downloads. I don't need to download the Facebook app, I did years ago (and since deleted it too)
This, plus the fact that I think facebook is on most smart phones by default anyway? As is youtube? And probably the same for those other social media apps. Kind of hard to post stellar download numbers when you're installed by default. (or does it count update downloads too?)
Cut China off the net. Let them have their own. (Score:2, Interesting)
In other words... (Score:5, Insightful)
A brand new app has more installs than apps that nearly everyone already has installed? Not to completely dismiss it, but I'm not sure this news is as big as they think it is.
Seems risky... (Score:2, Interesting)
They've been spamming ads for it on YouTube. The ads themselves don't really explain what the app is for nor do they demonstrate, all the while having attractive young females doing things that vaguely imply sexual activity.
How long before someone in power realizes that this is essentially a petri dish for self-shot underage porn, and likely therefore becomes a target for pedos?
Re: Seems risky... (Score:2, Funny)
How long before someone in power realizes that this is essentially a petri dish for self-shot underage porn, and likely therefore becomes a target for pedos?
Come on now. Trump is sexually attracted to hookers, not children (well, at least not children that aren't his)
Growth != size (Score:1)
New app has more new people joining per week (because almost nobody has it yet) than established players (because almost everybody already has it).
That is either malicious clickbait or an incompetent journalist.
You dont say (Score:2)
TikTok had a 29 percent engagement rate, compared (Score:1)
As advertised in Opera (Score:2)
I use the Opera mobile browser, and they have been embedding ads for Tik Tok in in the news reader.
I wonder if the two companies are related?