Launched in its present form in 2018, TikTok is a popular social media app that allows users to create, watch, and share short videos shot on cellphones.
It is owned by a Chinese company called ByteDance. It had about one billion active monthly users worldwide by the start of 2021.
It has been downloaded 1 billion times on Google Play Store and 200 million times in the US alone.
In Africa, the search interest for the search term ‘TikTok’ was highest in #Ethiopia and Somalia, followed by Algeria. @OrbitET
