Facts you need to know about TikTok || Tiktok Crazy

Here are some of the most interesting facts you need to know about TikTok.

1. TikTok is an international brand of Douyin (app similar to TikTok in China) and Douyin was developed in 200 days and was first launched in Beijing, China under the name A.me.

2. It was developed by ByteDance and according to the data published by Statistica, ByteDance is now worth $78B.

3. Chinese internet entrepreneur Zhang Yiming, ByteDance founder,  is the mastermind behind TikTok.

4. Shou Zi Chew is the CEO of TikTok.

5. TikTok was ranked as the third fastest growing brand in 2020.

6. TikTok has been downloaded more than 130 million times in united states.

7. It has reached 2 billion downloads worldwide.

8. In 2017, Tiktok's parent company ByteDance purchased musical.ly in $1B and merged with musical.ly in 2018.

9. It was the most downloaded app on Apple's app store in 2018 and 2019 surpassing youtube, facebook and instagram.

10. In 2020, TikTok signed a licensing deal with Sony music and Warner music group.

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11. Charli D'Amelio is the most followed Tiktoker in the world with more than 116M followers.

12. TikTok earned 800 millions active users withing three years after launching.

13. About 44% of TikTok users are female and 56% are male.

 

14. In July 2020, united states alone had 90 million monthly active users.

15. As of January 2021, TikTok has 689 million active users worldwide.

16. As of April 2020, Tiktok app has been downloaded more than 2 billion times worldwide (both app store and google play store).

17. TikTok is the 7th most-used social media network in the world after WeChat while facebook is in the first place and youtube in second.

18. According to Statica, almost 62 percent of TikTok users in the US are aged between 10 and 29.

19. TikTok users spend an average of 52 minutes per day on the app.

20. As of the data in the year 2019, app is available in 155 countries and in 75 languages.

21. More than 1 million videos are viewed every day in a year. 

22. Addison rae is the highest earning tiktok creator worldwide.

23. BTS holds the world record for the fastest to get 1M followers on TikTok.

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