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TikTok was the most-downloaded app in the US in September
- TikTok is a social platform popular amongst teens made-up of
short videos that often play catchy songs in the
background. - According to
TechCrunch report on Friday, TikTok was the most
downloaded app in the US in September. - This marked the first time in the US that TikTok had more
downloads than Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat in a
given month. - Today, TikTok is the 4th ranked social app in the App
Store’s Top Charts, behind YouTube, Instagram, and
Snapchat.
TikTok — an app you may have never heard of before — was the most
downloaded app in the US in September, according to
a TechCrunch
report on Friday using data from SensorTower.
For the first time in the US, TikTok had more downloads than
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat in a given month.
TikTok had 3.81 million downloads from the iOS App Store
and Google Play combined in September. Facebook had the second
highest download count at 3.53 million first-time installs,
according to the TechCrunch report.
Today, TikTok is the 4th ranked social app in the App
Store’s Top Charts, behind top-ranked YouTube, 2nd ranked
Instagram, and 3rd place Snapchat.
So what is TikTok?
It’s sort of like Vine, the viral video creation app that
Twitter acquired and later killed. TikTok is a social
platform popular amongst teens made-up of short videos that often
play catchy songs in the background.
On a recent meander through the app, I watched a US Marine do
one-handed pull-ups to Panic! At The Disco’s “High Hopes,” a
woman singing a John Legend’s “All of Me” to her bag of Hot
Cheetos, and so much more.
You’ll quickly find how addicting TikTok can be.
Read more:
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TikTok is owned by the same Beijing-based parent company that
bought social video app Musical.ly for $1 billion last
year.
Musical.ly, which had 60 million users at the time of its
acquisition, was folded into the TikTok app to help it gain
traction in the US.
With TikTok number one downloaded social app in September, that
strategy seems to be working quite well.
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