TikTok Surpasses 2 Billion Users

TikTok, the popular video-sharing app known for its quirky 15-second videos, continued its rapid growth in the first quarter. The app has been downloaded more than 2 billion times from the Apple App Store and Google Play store, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower, just five months after it surpassed 1.5 billion downloads.

TikTok enjoys its greatest popularity in India, which accounts for thirty percent of its downloads, followed by China at ten percent and the US at eight percent

TikTok is a social media app where users, mostly teens and young adults, post videos of up to 15 seconds long, often synced with music. The app is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, currently the most valuable startup in the world.