TikTok overtakes Facebook as most world’s most downloaded app

TikTok overtakes Facebook as most world’s most downloaded app
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In a global survey of downloads in 2020, Nikkei Asia reported TikTok had overtaken Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger, all of which are owned by Facebook.

Chinese short-video platform TikTok has overtaken Facebook as the most downloaded social media app in the world, the media reported.

According to Nikkei Asia, a global survey of downloads in 2020 showed TikTok on top of the list of social media providers for the first time since the study was first conducted in 2018.

The report said that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance launched the international version of the short-video platform in 2017, and has since overtaken Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger, all of which are Facebook-owned, in downloads, even in the US