TikTok is an online video sharing social networking service. It lets people create short videos that can range from 3 seconds to 10 minutes. TikTok videos can be about any topic. TikTok is popular all around the world.[2] It was first released under the name of Musical.ly but was later bought out and renamed to TikTok.
TikTok was created by ByteDance. It was released in September 2016 and was the most downloaded app in the United States in October 2018[source?]. As of 2022, TikTok has over 3 billion downloads, and over 1 billion active users each month.[4]
Bans
On 29 June 2020, India decided to ban 59 apps including TikTok.[5] A month later on 31 July 2020, US President Donald Trump announced a possible ban of the app.[6] Then, on 18 September 2020, the Trump administration announced that the app would be removed from U.S. app stores on 12 November 2020, unless ByteDance can assure the Trump administration that the app does not pose a threat to U.S. security.[7]
In April 2024, President Biden signed a law that could result in the banning of TikTok in the United States unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells the app to a non-Chinese entity by January 2025. [8]
