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| TikTok was launched internationally in 2018, after merging with another Chinese social media service, Musical.ly, an app that allowed users to share videos of themselves lip-synching to songs. (Photo by=Getty Images |
[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] Move over Google, TikTok is the world's new most popular online destination. BBC said that according to Cloudflare, the viral video app gets more hits than the American search engine, an IT security company.
The rankings show that TikTok knocked Google off the top spot in February, March, and June this year and has held the number one position since August. Last year, Google was first, and several sites, including TikTok, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Netflix, were all in the top 10. Cloudflare said it tracks data using Cloudflare Radar, which monitors web traffic. It is believed one of the reasons for the surge in Tiktok's popularity is because of the Covid pandemic, as lockdowns meant people were stuck at home and looking for entertainment.
According to the data company Sensor Tower, by July this year, TikTok had been downloaded more than three billion times. The social network, which is owned by a Chinese company called Bytedance, now has more than one billion active users worldwide, and that number continues to grow. In China, to comply with the country's censorship rules, the app is called Douyin and runs on a different network. TikTok was launched internationally in 2018 after merging with another Chinese social media service, Musical.ly, which allowed users to share videos of themselves lip-synching to songs.
