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title: "Facts about Tiktok"  
description: "A brief history of Tiktok and some of its interesting facts"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-09-28  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2691/facts-about-tiktok  
category: "trending"  
tags: ["tiktok", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Facts about Tiktok

![Facts about Tiktok](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/24071cd8-5652-4ad7-9877-c7676ed3b620/images/3ac1c18f-f358-4598-8013-44f9dbb1beec.jpeg) ![Facts about Tiktok](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/24071cd8-5652-4ad7-9877-c7676ed3b620/images/b1bcf919-26d6-435b-b06b-4ac3fdf367a0.jpeg) ByteDance, a Chinese technology firm, launched Tiktok in 2016. ![Facts about Tiktok](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/24071cd8-5652-4ad7-9877-c7676ed3b620/images/641e9cd4-6ee3-48d7-8718-98ea6736a21e.jpeg) It is a social networking platform for short-form video creation, sharing, and discovery. ![Facts about Tiktok](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/24071cd8-5652-4ad7-9877-c7676ed3b620/images/21d9e46f-f7db-4fd4-ac5d-7a5e21ad572d.jpeg) TikTok's parent firm, ByteDance, purchased Musical.ly for roughly $1 billion in November 2017. ![Facts about Tiktok](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/24071cd8-5652-4ad7-9877-c7676ed3b620/images/a5375951-7e88-4b9f-a629-39103c6effc5.jpeg) In August 2018, the two apps were merged into a single app that retained the TikTok logo while including many of Musical.ly's features. ![Facts about Tiktok](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/24071cd8-5652-4ad7-9877-c7676ed3b620/images/6d99f3aa-e59d-4b90-949c-179ac1265896.jpeg) As of 2023, TikTok has more than 1.5 billion monthly active users. It has received over 3.5 billion downloads.

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