TikTok puts Facebook on notice with 1 billion downloads

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Love it or hate it, TikTok is turning into a force to be reckoned with.

The video app, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has now been downloaded more than one billion times around the world, according to new data from app analytics company Sensor Tower. 

The firm, which looked at installs across the various versions of the iOS and Android app, says the app gained more than 71 million new users during the month of January alone. 

TikTok declined to comment on Sensor Tower’s estimate, which does not include the Chinese version of the company’s Android app. (The app has a sizable user base in China, where it’s known as Douyin.) Read more…

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