How Did TikTok Come About? Discover The History Of The Most Downloaded App

Do you know what TikTok is? Know the story! Currently, it is difficult for anyone who has never heard of the TikTok app, an app that exploded out of nowhere, and has been successful among thousands of young people around the world. Today, let’s get to know more about the history of this app that is among the most downloaded apps around the world.

So, first let’s understand what this platform is about and how it works, so TikTok is a mix of an application with a social network that focuses on sharing short videos, up to 15 seconds long. These videos are usually accompanied by songs, usually hits, and are edited in various ways in order to make the videos more and more attractive.

The app even allows people to do duets, being made by two videos from different users, in which most of the time they are musical duets or creative interactions between the videos. Another famous theme is reactions, where users record videos reacting to other people’s videos.

In this context, the video options are the most varied, serving all audiences, from music content, games, funny videos, trends, gastronomy, or even educational and scientific content. As a result, even though the audience is mostly made up of young people, TikTok is increasingly increasing in popularity and attracting users of all possible ages.

The history of TikTok

The history of TikTok (Source – Canva)

The origin of this application took place in China, in September 2016, with the launch of its original and local version, called Douyin, that is, vibrant sound, which even without expanding outside its country of origin, managed to reach more than one billion videos watched every day. In addition, the company responsible for the development of this application is ByteDance, created in Pekin in 2012, and which today is considered one of the most valuable private companies in the entire market. In addition, the company still has other successful applications, such as Toutiao, which is a news and personalized content application, and Feiliao, also known as Flipchat, which combines a messaging application with a social network, has also developed Topbuzz, a platform of content that was even launched in Brazil.

In September 2017, this same company launched the TikTok platform internationally, having a rapid acceptance and causing the Chinese market to explode with the services available on the platform. As far as the western market is concerned, the app took a little longer but became popular due to the replacement it made in relation to the Vine app, which had more or less the same proposal as TikTok, but was soon abandoned by the published one. , for greater interest in other networks, such as Instagram.

After the decline of Vine, another Chinese app was launched with a similar proposal, but with a greater focus on music, called Musical.ly, which was soon purchased by the company ByteDance, in November 2017. With that, in August From 2018, as the two platforms looked alike, the Chinese company closed the purchased application, and unified the proposals of the two applications, giving rise to TikTok, and from there the application exploded.

Finally, the app is available for virtually all device systems such as iOS , Android and the web, just download it to start using it.