TikTok is the international version of the app Douyin (抖音), released by the Chinese company ByteDance in September 2016 after merging with Musical.ly[6]. Douyin, the app that TikTok was based on, was originally released in the Chinese market under the name "A.me" in September 2016. TikTok allows users to watch short-form videos for up to 3 minutes from a variety of genres, which come from a personalized feed known as the "For You" page. Users could swipe/scroll down the feed to watch another video published on the platform. ByteDance used an AI for the algorithm to make the videos based on what the user likes, which they (now) sell out to various companies.
TikTok became the most downloaded app in United States in September 2018. According to the analytics site Sensor Tower, TikTok had 1 billion downloads worldwide in February 2019. The app gained traction quickly in countries such as India, which accounted for more than 40% of total downloads in 2018. Despite the fact that the $1 billion acquisition was completed two years ago, US lawmakers have recently called for TikTok to be investigated. This is due to concerns about how TikTok stores personal information and whether it sends data to China.
The Madras High Court asked the government of India to ban TikTok on 3 April 2019, citing that it "encourages pornography" and shows "inappropriate content". The court also noted that children and minors using the app were at risk of being targeted by sexual predators. On 17 April, both Google and Apple removed TikTok from Google Play and the App Store. As the court refused to reconsider the ban, the company said they had removed over 6 million videos that violated their content policy and guidelines.
TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, was under review by the U.S. government over concerns about its popularity with Western users. Concerns included its alleged ability to convey location, image and biometric data to its Chinese parent company.
History

The rise of TikTok in Analytics. [via TechCrunch]
Beginning of Douyin
- Main Article: Douyin

The original logo of Douyin.
On September 26, 2016, an app called "A.me" was launched by ByteDance as a platform for short educational videos.[7] It was known to be regarded as Musical.ly's "copycats".[8][9] The app was then renamed to "Douyin" (抖音) in December.[7] The app, when it was released during that time, did not receive much popularity until March 12, 2017, when a Chinese actor, Yue Yunpeng, forwarded a short video with Douyin's watermark to Weibo. The post received 83,175 likes and over 5,083 forwards that day.[10][9] Douyin includes celebrities such as Yang Mi, Lu Han, Kris Wu, and Angelababy, who participated in its "public relations campaigns".[10][11][12]
Launch of TikTok
- Main Article: Musical.ly

TikTok/Douyin was created by ByteDance, a parent company known for Toutiao (今日头条).
An app called Musical.ly was released in July 2014, founded by Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang.[13][14][15] It was the most popular app when Douyin was first released. Facebook have spent six months trying to acquire Musical.ly in 2016 but "walked away out of concern about the app's young user base and Chinese ownership".[16][17][18] On November 9, 2017, ByteDance bought the app for $1 billion,[19][20][21] merging Musical.ly and Flipagram to create one app and a larger community, which they named "TikTok".[22] TikTok was first released under international markets. In September 2018, it became the most downloaded app in the United States.[23]

An application icon of TikTok when it merged with Musical.ly
The application gives users access to content from new countries and other features from Musical.ly. It notifies users who have spent more than two hours on the app, which is similar to a feature introduced by social media giant Facebook. The company stated that existing users' accounts and content would be transferred "to the new TikTok app"[24][What is Tik Tok (formally musical.ly)? 1][25]
Investigation of CFIUS
- Main Article: Investigation of TikTok Acquisition
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is looking into the company's partnership with Musical.ly. The Committee investigates non-US acquisitions to see if they affect or jeopardize national security. The social music app claimed to have 60 million active users per month at the time of the acquisition. TikTok has tried to reassure users and the US government that this information will not be shared with anyone in China.[26][27][28][29]
Musical.ly founder Alex Zhu began reporting directly to ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming a month before the incident. Whether this move had anything to do with the company's mitigation discussions with CFIUS was not immediately clear. According to Rubio, "any platform which collects massive amounts of data on Americans is a potential serious threat to our country"[26]
Other Timelines of TikTok
In January 2019, TikTok had 1.047 million downloads worldwide, and was followed by Facebook-owned WhatsApp, which had nearly 90.6 million installs.[30][31] TikTok and Douyin reached 1 billion downloads globally in February 2019.[32] Media outlets cited TikTok as "the 7th-most-downloaded mobile app of the decade".[33] In April 2019, The Indian government issued a ban on TikTok for "hosting content related to child pornography" and making "children vulnerable to predators". Apple and Google also removed the app from their app stores, but their service is still "operational" and those who have the app installed can use it.[34] Despite facing several challenges, TikTok emerged as still the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for August with more than 63.3 million installs.[35]
According to Musically, TikTok generated $115 million in user spending in October 2019 due to in-app purchases rather than ad revenues.[36][37] TikTok's downloads on the App Store and Google Play have also surpassed 1.5 billion.[38] TikTok banned political advertising in the same month because it "did not fit with the experience provided by its platform," according to the company. TikTok also states that "it wants to be known as a place for creative expression."[39]
TikTok denied to send a representative to a Senate hearing on big tech and China on November 5, 2019. Former TikTok employees testified at the hearing that the final decision on whether flagged videos are approved is made by company officials in Beijing. They claimed that in order to comply with Chinese government restrictions, attempts to persuade ByteDance not to block or penalize specific videos were routinely ignored. [25] “The purse is still in China,” says the narrator. "The money comes from there, and so do the decisions” said Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism. Due to visa issues, ByteDance was unable to send a Chinese representative to the hearing, according to a company spokesman.[40][41]
According to The Guardian, TikTok censored "politically sensitive content" in 2019, such as footage of Tiananmen Square protests and Tibetan independence demands. According to additional Washington Post reporting, Chinese moderators had the final say on whether videos were approved. Such guidelines, according to ByteDance, have since been phased out, and all moderation is independent of Beijing.[42]
It promoted #BlackLivesMatter as a trend in May. Even as the hashtag drew billions of views, there were complaints that black creators' content was being suppressed and protest-related hashtags were being hidden. It is not the first time TikTok's algorithm has been chastised for the manner in which content is selected. According to The Intercept, moderators were encouraged to deprioritize content from anyone deemed too "ugly" or poor.[40][42][43][44]
While creators could always make money through brand deals and other ventures, there was no direct way to make money from video views at first. That changed when they launched the $200 million Creator Fund, which was designed to financially support growing creators on the app. Shortly after its announcement, the fund was predicted to grow to $1 billion in the United States over the next few years.[45][46][47][48][49]
In January 2020, TikTok updated its Community Guidelines, including a new section on misinformation. The aim of these guidelines is to "keep this community safe", During this time, the rules were mostly focused on scams and creating fake profiles. TikTok has announced a new set of guidelines for its content moderation practices.
Features
- Main Category: Features
Content
"For You" feed
- Main Article: For You

"For You" page in desktop.
The "For You" page is a video feed that first appears when opening the app. This feed displays videos that have been recommended to users based on their app activity. ByteDance, its parent company, added an AI for the "For You" feed, which generates content based on what Users liked.[50][51] Users can like, comment, and share videos on TikTok. They can also add videos to their "favorites" or select "not interested" for their page. Because of its policy, Users who are under 16 will not appear under "For You" page and the sounds page.[52][53]
ByteDance has declined to answer questions about its algorithm, but it appears that hashtags are being used under captions.[54] On July 2021, ByteDance begun selling the AI behind the algorithm of "For You" page and have launched a new division, BytePlus, through which they can supply TikTok’s technology to other companies.[55] BytePlus enables companies to access the successful recommendation algorithm and “personalise it for their apps and customers”. This also show real-time video effects, automated speech, and text translation tools, as well as data analysis.[56][57][58][59]
When other users follow the user, a "following" page appears to the left of the "for you" page. This is a page where users can only see videos from the accounts they follow.
Videos, hashtags, filters, and sounds can also be added to the "saved" section by users.
Creating a video
- Main Article: Videos

Screenshot of creating a video.
Users can start making a short video by tapping the "+" button in the bottom middle of the screen. Users can filter, speed up, upload images, add effects, or use templates on the video and more. Users can also add their own background music from a variety of genres such as Electronic, Instrumental, Hip Hop, and more under "Commercial Sounds" (formerly "Music Library"). The video's duration can be set to 3 minutes, 60 seconds, or 30 seconds.[60][61][62][63] [64] Videos with a duration of less than one second cannot be published.
When the user is done recording the video, they can add a voice effect and a voice over to it. Sounds that have been added to the video can be trimmed can they can also choose a sticker and text to include in the video. The "Effects" option in the bottom left corner contains a variety of transition effects.
When done editing the video, click the "Next" button on the bottom right corner. From here, Users can add texts, hashtag, or friends' username in a caption.
Users can also see an effect used in the video and choose a cover for the video. Users can enable or disable comments from the bottom, as well as set them to public, private, or only visible to followers. The user can enable the "Save to device" button, which means that when a video is finished being published to TikTok, it will be automatically saved to their gallery. Users can save videos that they do not want to post yet in their "drafts" folder.
Duet
- Main Article: Duet
There is a duet option that allows users to create content that includes an initial video and a second video that appear side by side on the screen in a square format. The user can create a duet with any TikTok from a brand, influencer, friend, or even themselves, as long as the original video's creator has granted permission for the video to be used in the app.[65][66]
Reaction
- Main Article: React
The "React" feature that records users' reactions on the selected video, and be able to change reaction time. It allow users to share their reactions to the videos they watch. Instead of text comments, these reactions will be in the form of videos superimposed on top of existing videos.[67][68]
Account

An example of an account (@tiktok).
By default, when creating an account, it will be made public. Users can set it to private account through Settings, which will make the videos visible only to followers. From the bottom, users can view their account's profile, which includes their profile picture, followers, likes, and videos. Users can view their followers or what they are following by clicking its number, which will take them to a list of users. Users can edit their profile by clicking "Edit Profile" From here, they can change their account username, nickname, bio, and even add their own bio, website, email, and social media accounts.
When account information such as phone numbers, emails, and passwords is lost, it can be added to their account via Manage Account. There is a "Delete account" option that deletes everything from the account permanently.
The Settings' that could change or manage the account are listed:
- Manage Account: manages the account's email, personal information, and other options that include deleting the account or switching to Business Account.
- Privacy: manages the account's privacy. They can choose who should comment, download, duet, stitch to their videos or view their following.
- Security and login: Manage account's security, which prevents another user from attempting to open the account.
- Creator Tools: A set of options for creators such as Analytics, Creator Portal and Q&A.
- Business Account: allows users to view account analytics as well as TikTok videos. This feature was used to build a TikTok following because its data provides insight into how to best tailor one's TikTok activities to best promote one's account. This feature is free for all users.
- Business suite: Options for Business accounts. Users with Business Accounts enabled can only access this setting.
Business Account
- Main Article: Business Account
Business Account allows users to see analytics on their videos such as the dates and times when the videos were the most viewed. Business accounts are designed specifically to assist brands in being discovered, with features such as real-time performance tracking and real-time video analysis.
How to access Business Creative Hub
"Business Creative Hub" video by TikTok.
Business Account was introduced in the summer of 2019. When activated, it will took seven days to load data in Analytics. Features from Business Account are listed below:
- Creator Portal: Portal for creators.
- Q & A: A feature that allows Users to add their comments into questions, which are labeled as such in the Comments section. This enables a creator to quickly identify and respond to questions in their videos' comments section.
- Analytics Dashboard: Analytics of videos and account.
- Business Creator Hub: features trending videos from Business Accounts in their country.
Livestream
- Main Article: Livestream
Livestream (officially called "TikTok LIVE") on TikTok allows users to interact in real-time. Users who are over 16 with 1,000 followers can launch LIVEs, and users who are over 18 can be send with Virtual Items which can be exchanged with real money. Users can do Q&A questions with the livestreamer.
To start a live-stream, first click on the "+" button. Scroll to the right until they see the "LIVE" option and click on it. To begin streaming, click the "Go Live" button at the bottom of the screen. When clicking the button, The three-second countdown begins until the live starts. playing unlicensed music will cause copyright disputes. Users can also write a 32-characters long caption or title for the livestream.
TikTok reports that markets already have access to LIVE Events, a tool that allows creators to plan their upcoming LIVE sessions. Creators can now schedule and promote their event in advance to build excitement in their community, while fans can discover, register, and then receive notifications and reminders when the LIVE Event is about to begin. Scheduling tools are a fairly common baseline feature for live-streaming platforms to provide, so it stands to reason that TikTok would include this.[69]
Virtual Items
Virtual Items are gifts that can be sent to a creator while live-streaming.[70][71][72] To obtain TikTok gifts, Users must be purchased with coins. These came in a variety of bundles. When making a purchase. These coins are not refundable or exchangeable for cash. The use of third-party services is strictly prohibited and may result in permanent ban to the account.[73]
Users must be at least 18 years old to send or receive gifts in-app. Users must first buy virtual coins, which can be found in your profile Settings under the "Balance" tab. enter the LIVE stream and select the gift panel when they have enough coins to buy a gift. Then, on any of the gifts the user want to give, click "send" and it will appear in the stream immediately.[73]
Settings
- Main Article: Settings

Settings' icon.
TikTok has a set of privacy and safety settings to restrict who can contact and comment on Users' posts and profile. The user can change or add, replace, personal phone number, email and passwords. If the user wants to delete their account permanently, everything from its account, such as Videos, Drafts, and personal information, Coins, will also be deleted. All settings are listed:
- Manage Account: manage's the account's personal information and others.
- Privacy: manage's account's privacy.
- Security and Login: allows users to add securities to prevent another user from attempting to access the account.
- Creator Tools: tools for creators such as Analytics.
- Buisness Suite: Settings for Business Accounts.
- Balance: shows coins, earnings, and activity awards.
- QR code: QR Code can be shared so that other users can follow.
- Share profile: Shares profile. It can be shared to social medias such as Facebook, Messenger and many more.
After the "Account" Settings, In "Content & Activity", it changes user's activity on TikTok such as switching one out of 75 languages, changing notifications and content preferences and more. These settings include:
- Push Notifications: notifies "when other users interact with your content in certain ways"[74]
- App Language - Users can choose one out of 75 Languages. The app selects English by default.
- Content Preference - When setting its language content preferences, TikTok will “customize your viewing experience” based on the language(s) they select.[75]
- Digital Wellbeing - can send out reminders to take breaks and block potentially inappropriate content.
- Family Pairing - allows parents "to link their TikTok account to their teen's and set controls"[76]
- Accessibility - Includes animated thumbnail, live photo and an option that removes photosensitive videos.
The third section, titled "Cache & Cellular Data" are options to improve users' experience on TikTok. These include:
- Free up space: Clears cache, downloads (which include effects, filters, stickers, virtual gifts), and drafts
- Data Saver: will "reduce your cellular data usage", which means that videos "may be at a lower resolution or take longer to load". Without Wi-Fi, it will be automatically be disabled.
- Wallpaper: Users can select videos to be added as a wallpaper.
Variants
Douyin
- Main Article: Douyin

Douyin's Logo.

Screenshot of Douyin's website on August 12, 2021.
Douyin (抖音, literally “shaking sound” in Chinese) is the Chinese and the original version of TikTok. It was first launched in September 2016 and in other markets on 2017.[77][78][79][80][81][82] As stated earlier, TikTok is Douyin's international version, an app that appears to be the same as Douyin but is not. Douyin and TikTok are two entirely distinct entities. You will be able to download Douyin or TikTok depending on which app store you use. Users of Chinese app stores can only find Douyin, whereas users of the international Apple Store or Google Play can only find TikTok. Running the same search terms in both apps reveals that the apps are actually separate systems. Both apps, as shown below, provide different content for the same app.[83]
Douyin accepts videos with durations from 3 to 15 seconds. It includes features centered on background music and special visual effects. Douyin also offers "gamified in-app live streaming functionality," allowing users to send virtual gifts to their favorite content providers.[84] One of the most popular Douyin accounts is that of Chinese actor Chen He, who has over 100 million followers[85][86][87]. However, when the same name is searched in TikTok, several unverified accounts appear, all with videos similar to those on Chen He's Douyin account.[83] According to Business of Apps, an app development and app industry news website, Douyin was installed 800 million times in the first three months of last year, excluding Android users in China. It has now been downloaded over 1 billion times.[82]
On the app, some rural city governments have begun to promote their region's produce and tourist attractions. Users can search for and purchase videos of their faces using in-video search. In September, ByteDance obtained a payments firm, which users are more likely to accept features and design choices that fits to their needs.[citation needed] Douyin has surpassed the milestone of 828 million monthly active users and has over 600 million daily active users in September 2020.[88] Its popularity has also had an impact on the growth of urban cultural tourism.[89]
TickTock
- Main Article: TickTock

a screenshot of the "TickTock" application by the company ByteDance. (click on the image to view)
As the TikTok was banned in India on June 2020. An app, titled TickTock, will appear as the replacement to TikTok. On July 6, ByteDance filed a trademark application for TikTok under Cla 42 of the Fourth Schedule to Trade Mark Rules, for "scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto; industrial analysis and research services; design and development of computer hardware and software" as first reported by tipster Mukul Sharma on Twitter. Some Indian TikTok alternatives have also emerged in the market to capitalize on the ban and capitalize on the demand for short-form video apps during the national lockdown.[90]
Campaigns and Promotions
- Main Article: TikTok's Campaigns and Promotions
ByteDance created a local office in Indonesia to expand into Southeast Asian markets. TikTok held an offline launch party in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, on September 13, 2017, "to inspire the first generation of creators and celebrate the expansion". As a result, over 100 celebrities attended the party.[10]
TikTok organizes offline gatherings daily in order to connect with content creators. TikTok's manager said: "We are looking for and attracting some good content creators from social media platforms like [[wikipedia:Instagram|Instagram".[10]
TikTok increased visibility by adding three festival stickers during Thailand's traditional Water Festival. In October, the app had its highest-earning month to date, thanks to a 275 percent increase in in-app purchases, totaling more than $3.5 million globally. TikTok also hosts the "1 million auditions" contest in multiple countries, resulting in thousands of videos for each country.[10]
Competition
- Main Article: Copycats of TikTok
TikTok's rise drew the attention and concern of many other tech companies, leading them to "copycatting" TikTok to create an app that is aimed at teenagers. Starting in November 2018, Facebook launched an app called "Lasso" as a competition to TikTok. The app was quickly discontinued by Facebook to create another new app called "Instagram Reels". Snapchat later launched a new feature called "Lens Challenge" "to increase user engagement by allowing users to post short-form videos themed to a specific song, dance, event, and more."[10]
Censorship of TikTok
United States
- Further Information: Banned in United States
India
- Main Article: Banned in India
According to Indian media, TikTok was issued a permanent ban by the ministry of electronics, along with 58 Chinese apps. The Indian government let the 59 apps explain their position "with privacy and security requirements" on their first ban, according to the Times of India on January 25. The Chinese companies, which include ByteDance, WeChat, Tencent Holdings' and Alibaba's UC Browser, were asked to respond to a list of questions. As a result, 59 apps were banned permanently and [[wikipedia:Mint (newspaper) |Livemint]] stated that "the notices were sent out last week".[91]
TikTok has been banned in India since June 29th after the government said it was "engaging in activities which are prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India, the defence of India" The company hopes to re-add TikTok in India to support the hundreds of millions of users there. In 2021, ByteDance tried to bring the app back to India under the name "TickTock".[92]
TikTok India's CEO issued a statement claiming that TikTok had not shared personal information of Indian users "with the Chinese government and that its practices were in accordance with India's data privacy and security requirements" Apple and Google removed the app from their app stores from India. It had prevented new downloads when the ban was lifted a little more than a week later.[92]
Pakistan
- Main Article: Banned in Pakistan
In October 2020, Pakistan temporarily banned TikTok for a few days due to the "continuous presence of inappropriate content on the platform and its failure to take such content down",[93] but lifted after it assured Pakistani government that all accounts "repeatedly involved in spreading obscenity and immorality" would be blocked. The latter has already banned TikTok. In 2020, the PTA requested that YouTube remove all videos deemed "objectionable" from the platform.[94]
After the first ban, TikTok has been allowed to operate in Pakistan for the first time. The company says it is committed to "promoting a safe and positive community online" A government adviser had accused the app of encouraging "exploitation, objectification, and sexualization" of young girls. ByteDance stated "We are pleased that TikTok is now available to our community in Pakistan"[94]
Pakistan has lifted a second ban on TikTok for "immoral and unethical" content after it offered to moderate uploads once more. Last month, a court in the northwestern city of Peshawar ordered the communications regulator to block the app due to videos that violated the "conservative country's moral values". The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority announced the blocking on July 21, 2021 in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016.[94]
TikTok removed 6,495,992 videos between January and March 2021, making it the second most removed market after the United States. Pakistan was also banned from using Pakistani-made videos on the app, according to a spokesperson for Dawn.[93]
Indonesia
On July 3, 2018, the Indonesian Ministry of Communications and Information imposed a temporary ban on TikTok due to some of the platform's negative contents. Ten days later, the ban was lifted on the condition that TikTok remove "all negative content" from the app and form a team of 20 censors to monitor the content of uploaded videos in Indonesia. Samuel A. Pangerapan, stated, "This blocking is temporary until TikTok fixes and clears its illegal content."[95][96]
The ban was lifted ten days later after TikTok representatives assured the Indonesian government that they would remove all harmful content and form 20 sensors to monitor the harmful content uploaded.[97]
Bangladesh
- Main Article: Banned in Bangladesh
On November 2018, Bangladesh bans TikTok for being used to conduct criminal activities ([[wikipedia:Rapid Action Battalion |RAB]]). A number of rapes and gang rapes have occurred in Bangladesh in recent months, with victims being enticed by the prospect of filming for TikTok videos.[98][99]
Seven people have been arrested in Bangladesh in connection with the alleged rape of a 22-year-old woman in Bengaluru by Bangladeshis. Human traffickers have recently been targeted by law enforcement after a woman was raped and tortured in India in late May after being duped into traveling to Bengaluru under the guise of a TikTok video shoot. The suspects claimed to have trafficked at least 50 women to India in the previous two years, according to police.[98][99]
According to Bangladesh's telecommunications minister, no formal proposal to ban TikTok has been received. Jabbar claims that social media platforms such as TikTok cause more harm than good. His comments follow the recent arrests of suspected members of a sex-trafficking ring that used TikTok to entice young women and girls.[98][99]
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