On 23 January 2018, the TikTok app ranked first among free application downloads on app stores in Thailand and other countries. The app was launched as TikTok in the international market in September 2017. So, going global is a must." Douyin was developed in 200 days and within a year had 100 million users, with more than one billion videos viewed every day. If we don’t expand on a global scale, we are bound to lose to peers eyeing the four-fifths. The founder of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, stated that "China is home to only one-fifth of Internet users globally.
ByteDance planned on Douyin expanding overseas.
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TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China however, it became available worldwide only after merging with another Chinese social media service, Musical.ly, on 2 August 2018.
TikTok is an international version of Douyin, which was originally released in the Chinese market in September 2016. It hosts a variety of short-form user videos, from genres like pranks, stunts, tricks, jokes, dance, and entertainment with durations from 15 seconds to three minutes. TikTok, known in China as Douyin ( Chinese: 抖音 pinyin: Dǒuyīn), is a video-focused social networking service owned by Chinese company ByteDance Ltd.