TikTok says it has over 1 billion usersThis photo taken on November 21, 2019, shows the logo of the social media video sharing app Tiktok displayed on a tablet screen in Paris. NEW YORK, United States — TikTok said Monday it now has more than a billion active users, just four years after the hugely popular video-sharing app was launched by Chinese group ByteDance. Related Stories TikTok bumps up video length to 3 minutesThe video platform has gained more than 300 million users since July 2020, the last time the company had reported user numbers. For its part, the Google subsidiary launched YouTube Shorts, deployed in more than 100 countries in mid-July, to compete with TikTok in the short format segment. The ByteDance subsidiary, whose equivalent in China is called Douyin, nevertheless remains well behind YouTube, which claimed 2.3 billion monthly active users in 2020.

Source: Philippine Star September 27, 2021 17:15 UTC