TikTok reaches 1 billion monthly active users; US, Europe biggest markets

 Short video-making platform TikTok has crossed 1000000000 monthly active users round the arena.

The video-sharing platform, owned by way of ByteDance, said it had about 55 million international users by January 2018. That quantity grew to more than 271 million by way of December 2018 and 507 million by way of December 2019.

"On behalf of the TikTok crew, I want to say thank you," TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas stated. "Wherever you're within the international, we truly could not try this with out you."

Social media large Facebook in assessment within the 2nd area had three.Fifty one billion monthly customers across its circle of relatives of apps, up from 3.45 billion within the first region.

Meanwhile, Youtube has over  billion monthly energetic users, having crossed the one billion mark in 2013, eight years after the corporation launched in 2005.

TikTok stated that its largest markets are inside the US, Europe, Brazil and Southeast Asia, even though its discern business enterprise ByteDance is headquartered in China.

In a trendy development, TikTok is adding new warnings to its in-app seek as a way to alert customers whilst consequences may additionally include "distressing content material".

The app has employed "sensitive content" warnings on man or woman movies because last 12 months, but the up to date alerts will seem in search outcomes for phrases that would encompass such content.

In a blog put up, TikTok uses the instance of "frightening makeup" as a seek term that could prompt this type of caution.

Last year, the Indian government stated it changed into banning 59 apps advanced by Chinese companies, which include ByteDance's TikTok over concerns that these apps were engaging in sports that threatened country wide protection.