TikTok has surpassed 2 billion all-time global downloads across iOS and Android devices, $4.- The accomplishment comes on the back of a record-setting Q1: TikTok saw 315 million installs, which Sensor Tower reports is the most downloads any app has ever had in a single quarter.
Social platforms across the board have seen a surge in popularity in recent months, as people under coronavirus-related lockdown adjust to staying at home and find new ways to connect with others.- $4.
TikTok has now surpassed 2 billion downloads on mobile devices after seeing a surge in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic.
The video-sharing app already had a monstrous start to 2020, attracting 315 million new installs since January, according to $4. That reportedly is the most downloads any app has ever gotten in a single quarter.
TikTok, known for the viral, short-form videos its users create, has seen a surge in popularity in the last several months as countries were placed under lockdown orders and people continue to adjust to
TikTok's 315 million first-quarter downloads dwarfs numbers out of other platforms, but social apps across the board have seen significant boosts in usage and downloads since the pandemic started. In Q1, Facebook accrued 186.1 million mobile downloads, and Instagram saw 151.8 million installs.
TikTok has become the go-to launchpad for memes and
The 2 billion downloads mark comes $4 TikTok reached 1 billion downloads globally. It took the app nearly 1.5 years to reach its first billion.
US-based companies and startups have made several attempts at their TikTok competitors, but none have been able to reach the level of popularity that TikTok has achieved and is continuing to build upon. The only platform to have found comparable success in the US was Musical.ly — $4 before shutting it down a year later to merge it into TikTok.
Most recently, $4 that YouTube is working on Shorts, $4 for shortform video-sharing. Google, YouTube's parent company, had also previously been rumored to be in talks to acquire a TikTok competitor called Firework, the $4.
$4 in November 2018 named Lasso, but the app has remained quiet since its debut. Vine's cofounder launched an app called Byte in early 2020, which $4 in download numbers, but has yet to birth any internet stars or viral memes. Triller, advertised as a music-discovery app, $4 with major music labels to rival TikTok. Although lip-syncing app Dubsmash has been instrumental in launching some TikTok-famous dances — $4 — it has only around one-third of the US downloads of TikTok, according to Sensor Tower data $4.
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