TikTok hit 1 billion month-to-month energetic customers globally this summer season, the corporate instructed Reuters, marking a forty five p.c leap since July 2020.

The United States, Europe, Brazil, and Southeast Asia are the largest markets for the favored short-video app, the corporate stated.

TikTok has skilled surges in customers around the globe previously few years, regardless of regulatory scrutiny it’s going through within the United States and different areas.

The firm beforehand stated it had about 55 million world customers by January 2018. That quantity rose to greater than 271 million by December 2018, 508 million by December 2019, and 689 million by July 2020.

Facebook reported 2.9 billion month-to-month energetic customers as of finish of June 2021, in response to its newest quarterly report.

TikTok beforehand stated it surpassed 2 billion world downloads by August 2020.

The video sharing platform is owned by China expertise large ByteDance. TikTok appointed ByteDance’s CFO Shouzi Chew, a Singaporean nationwide, as the brand new chief government officer of the corporate earlier this 12 months.

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