True or not, we know it has breached the 1 billion mark in monthly active users, making TikTok one of the biggest names in social media today.Ĭlearly, people enjoy what they can do on the platform, including the freedom to download videos without posting them. Many attribute the app's meteoric rise to the pandemic, especially early on when it became the world's most downloaded social app. From 66.9 million that year, 2020, Tiktok's number of active users in the country had jumped to 131 million by 2022.
When former United States President Donald Trump tried to ban Chinese-owned TikTok in America, he must've only helped it snowball into fame.