TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, Inc. It is used to create short lip-sync, comedy, and talent videos. The app was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android for markets outside of China, by ByteDance, a Beijing-based company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming. It had previously launched Douyin (Chinese: 抖音) for the China market in September 2016. TikTok and Douyin are similar, but run on separate servers to comply with Chinese censorship restrictions. The application allows users to create short music and lip-sync videos of 3 to 15 seconds[6][7] and short looping videos of 3 to 60 seconds. It is popular in Asia, the United States, and other parts of the world.[8] TikTok is not available in China, and its servers are based in countries where the app is available.[9]
TikTok
TikTok Logo.svg
Screenshot
A screenshot of the TikTok app, as seen in the United States.
A screenshot of the TikTok app, as seen in the United States.
Developer(s)
ByteDance
Initial release
September 2016; 3 years ago
Stable release
14.0.4 / 2 December 2019
Operating system
iOS, Android, Fire OS
Size
308.3 MB (iOS)[1]
80.19 MB (Android)[2]
79.7 MB (Fire OS)[3]
Available in
40 languages[4]
List of languages
Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Cambodian, Cebuano, Czech, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese
Type
Video sharing
License
Proprietary software with Terms of Use varying by location
Alexa rank
Increase 787 (Global, December 2019)[5]
Website
www.tiktok.com
TikTok
TikTok Logo.svg
Screenshot
A screenshot of the TikTok app, as seen in the United States.
A screenshot of the TikTok app, as seen in the United States.
Developer(s)
ByteDance
Initial release
September 2016; 3 years ago
Stable release
14.0.4 / 2 December 2019
Operating system
iOS, Android, Fire OS
Size
308.3 MB (iOS)[1]
80.19 MB (Android)[2]
79.7 MB (Fire OS)[3]
Available in
40 languages[4]
List of languages
Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Cambodian, Cebuano, Czech, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese
Type
Video sharing
License
Proprietary software with Terms of Use varying by location
Alexa rank
Increase 787 (Global, December 2019)[5]
Website
www.tiktok.com
Category
😹
Fun