Tiktok Overtakes Facebook
According to the world ranking established by App Annie, the Chinese application was the most downloaded in 2020. Behind it were all the social networks of the Facebook group. Facebook loses its title. According to an App Annie survey relayed by Japanese media Nikkei Asia, TikTok rose to the top of the world's most downloaded apps for the first time in 2020. ByteDance, the owner of the Chinese social network, "launched the international version of Tiktok in 2017 and has since overtaken Facebook (2nd), WhatsApp (3rd), Instagram (4th), and Facebook Messenger (5th) - all of which belong to Facebook - in a number of downloads, even in the United States ", underlines Nikkei Asia. And "the total viewing time of Tiktok in the US and the UK is longer than Youtube," said Chuzen Kin, marketing manager at App Annie, a mobile data analytics company. TikTok threatened by its competitor Likee? The Chinese application has notably gained in popularity during the pandemic, mainl...