TikTok
TikTok is a online video sharing social networking service. It lets people create short music and lip-sync videos of 3 to 15 seconds[5][6] and short looping videos of 3 to 60 seconds. They can post anything from life hacks to dances or even recipes. It is popular in Canada, the United States, and other parts of the world.[7] It was first released under the name of musical.ly but was later bought out and renamed TikTok.
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| Developer(s) | ByteDance |
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| Initial release | September 2016 |
| Discontinued | 14.4.11 / 6 January 2020 |
| Operating system | iOS and Android |
| Size | 308.3 MB (iOS)[1] 55.07 MB (Android)[2] |
| Available in | 40 languages[3] |
List of languages Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Cambodian, Cebuano, Czech, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese | |
| Type | Video sharing |
| License | Proprietary software with Terms of Use |
| Alexa rank |  634 (Global, January 2020[update])[4] |
TikTok was created by ByteDance. It was released in September 2016 and was the most downloaded app in the United States in October 2018.
On 29 June 2020, the India decided to ban 59 Apps including TikTok.[8] A month later on 31 July 2020, President Donald Trump announced a possible ban of the app.[9] Then, on 18 September 2020, the Trump administration announced that the app would be removed from U.S. app stores on 12 November 2020, unless ByteDance can assure the Trump administration that the app does not pose a threat to U.S. security.[10]
References
- ↑ "TikTok – Real Short Videos". App Store. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
- ↑ "TikTok". Play Store. Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
- ↑ "TikTok - Make Your Day". iTunes. Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ↑ "tiktok.com Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic - Alexa". alexa.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2019. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
- ↑ Ltd, Guiding Media Pvt (2 October 2018). "Top 10 TikTok (Musical.ly) App Tips and Tricks" (in en-in). Guiding Tech. https://www.guidingtech.com/top-tiktok-musically-app-tips-tricks/. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ↑ "TikTok – Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ↑ "TikTok is fast becoming the most popular app in the world". The Industry Observer. 2018-11-04. Archived from the original on 5 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
- ↑ "India bans 59 Chinese apps - TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser, Helo, Likee". App India News. 2020-06-29. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- ↑ Kalhan Rosenblatt (August 1, 2020). Trump's threatened TikTok ban could motivate young users to vote, some say. NBCUniversal News Group. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-s-threatened-tiktok-ban-could-motivate-young-users-vote-n1235587. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
- ↑ Swanson, Ana; McCabe, David; Nicas, Jack (2020-09-18). "Trump Administration to Ban TikTok and WeChat From U.S. App Stores" (in en-US). The New York Times. . https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/business/trump-tik-tok-wechat-ban.html. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
