Tik tok has become the fashionable application among the young and not so young. Here we leave you a selection of girls doing their funniest performances. The app for teens reached record downloads during the coronavirus quarantine. It currently has 500 million monthly active users, surpassing 330 million on Twitter and 294 million on Snapchat.
What is TikTok? – The Fastest Growing
Musical.ly was a popular short-form (15 seconds) video streaming and sharing app, with over 100 million users, up until August 2018. The app allowed users a plethora of music and dialogue options, with which they could lip sync and make funny or entertaining videos.
The app was widely popular with some content creators rising to the hall of fame based on their engaging content on Musical.ly. The users shared Musical.ly videos on social media platforms like Instagram, further driving the app’s popularity.
However, in August 2018, the app was taken over by a Chinese company ByteDance and its users were moved to Tik Tok. All of the content and accounts that were present on Musical.ly were automatically transferred to the new Tik Tok app.
How it Rose to Popularity
Since its launch, the TikTok app’s popularity has been growing tremendously. In October 2018, it was the most-downloaded photo and video app in the Apple store, globally. The app reportedly has amassed over 500 million monthly active users, the US being the most popular countrywhere it has been downloaded over 80 million times.
Some of the key reasons behind the TikTok app’s surge in popularity are:
