Nearly 5 years after Twitter shut down Vine, TikTok has reached the coveted 1 billion month-to-month energetic consumer mark. The firm introduced the milestone in a blog post on Monday. Attracting 1 billion customers to any platform is a major feat. However, TikTok’s rise in reputation is very spectacular when you think about virtually precisely a yr in the past the Trump Administration was threatening to ban the app if ByteDance, TikTok’s Bejing-based father or mother firm, didn’t promote it to an American purchaser.

Then you’ve got the pace at which TikTok achieved the feat. The app has solely been broadly out there since 2018 — although you can obtain it in choose markets as early as 2017. It took Instagram almost eight years after its preliminary launch and virtually six years after it was acquired by Facebook in 2012 earlier than it handed the 1 billion consumer threshold. Granted, the web was a smaller place then with fewer folks linked to it by their telephones, however none of that takes away from TikTok’s ascent.