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Chinese Video Sensation TikTok Surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube in Downloads Last Month (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the stranger-things dept.

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.

2 of 33 comments (clear)

  1. Cut China off the net. Let them have their own. by Seven+Spirals · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My firewalls and NIDS sure would thank you. If they have such a wonderful setup over there, why not just make the "Great Wall" the Great Cliff and just go ahead and fuck off forever? The rest of the internet would be cheering for joy, trust me.

  2. Seems risky... by Anonymous Coward · · 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?