Store Intelligence estimates published by Sensor Tower in March this year showed that ByteDance’s popular app TikTok also known as Duoyin in China had been downloaded more than one billion times globally as at February 2019. Sensor Tower has again released its latest Store Intelligence estimates and it shows that the short video app has been downloaded more than 1.5 billion times on Apple’s App Store and Google Play since release.That is over 500,000,000 downloads were recorded between February and now.
TikTok was first launched in China in September 2016 and was later introduced to the overseas market in 2017. It was ranked as the fourth most downloaded non-gaming app in the world last year, hitting 655.8 million unique installs. This year so far, the app has accumulated 614 million downloads which is 6 percent more than it had by the same point last year. At this pace, it will even surpass last years record number of installs.
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The app is the third most popular app worldwide in the non-gaming category after WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger which have 707.4 million and 636.2 million installs so far this year, respectively. The data released also show that India accounted for the largest share of the 1.5 billion cumulative downloads, with 31% of all unique installs coming from the country. China came in second with an estimated 11.5% of all installs but that is for the Chinese version called Douyin. The figures could even be higher a it doesn’t include downloads from third-party Android stores which are popular among Android phone users in China.
TikTok is also popular in the US with approximately 8.2% of the 1.5 billion total downloads coming from the US. The growing popularity of the app in the US has not gone unnoticed by the authorities. The US congress is presently scrutinizing the app for potential privacy and national security risks.
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