What does tiktok mean? Tiktok is the international version of vibrato short video

1. TikTok is a short video product under ByteDance, and is generally considered to be the international version of Douyin short video. The operating body of TikTok US is an American company headquartered in Culver City, USA. So far, TikTok has been basically independent from Douyin, the Chinese business of its parent company, ByteDance.

2. According to the eMarketer report, TikTok’s US user base grew by 97.5% in 2019; it will grow by 21.9% in 2020, reaching 45.4 million; and the number will exceed 50 million in 2021. TikTok has attracted a large number of users, especially children and teenagers.

3. In March 2020, the report of the data company Sensor Tower showed that in the four quarters of 2019, except for the second quarter where TikTok fell to the top three, the remaining three quarters were among the "most downloaded in the world". The top three in the "App List", which combines the global Apple and Google app stores. In the separate data list of the Apple Store, TikTok ranked first in the "World's Most Downloaded App List" in the first, third, and fourth quarters of 2019.

4. On June 29, 2020, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of India announced that 59 Chinese mobile phone applications including TikTok were banned. On July 1, according to a Reuters report, TikTok, an overseas short video product owned by ByteDance, was no longer searchable in the Indian app stores of Google and Apple, and TikTok that had been downloaded in the mobile phone could not display any videos.

5. On July 22, 2020, the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to pass the "Prohibiting the Use of TikTok on Government Devices Act."

6. On August 1, 2020, Microsoft is negotiating to acquire TikTok’s US business. On the evening of August 1, ByteDance agreed to divest TikTok’s US business.