TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

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Post by em500 » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 7:21 PM UTC

TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app
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Post by joelbondurant » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 7:59 PM UTC

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Post by appleflaxen » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 7:59 PM UTC

Is there any chance for facebook to buy them like they did instagram and whatsapp?

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Post by ericcholis » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 8:00 PM UTC

Pro TikTok take. It's easier and friendlier to consume. The algorithm is good at tailoring interests. But, it's more like TV than FB.

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Post by endisneigh » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 8:00 PM UTC

Sometimes I wonder what the most downloaded app would be if free apps simply didn't exist. Let's put $1 as the minimum. Would TikTok still be #1?

Apparently Minecraft is the #1 downloaded paid app. Would TikTok beat Minecraft? It's kind of fascinating. TikTok's ability to hook you in is truly amazing.

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Post by lbarrow » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 8:02 PM UTC

Remember, though, social media giants are monopolists and it's impossible to compete against them.

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Post by KaoruAoiShiho » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 8:02 PM UTC

TikTok is probably the best social media app, the only problem is the terrible search function. It doesn't have the sorting and filters that youtube does, fixing this one thing would make it so much more useful to me...

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Post by hkmurakami » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 8:04 PM UTC

endisneigh wrote: post #5

Sometimes I wonder what the most downloaded app would be if free apps simply didn't exist. Let's put $1 as the minimum. Would TikTok still be #1? Apparently Minecraft is the #1 downloaded paid app. Would TikTok beat Minecraft? It's kind of fascinating. TikTok's ability to hook you in is truly amazing.

Was WhatsApp $1 to download back in the day, or did users pay after download via some kind of subscription?

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Post by yuy910616 » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 8:04 PM UTC

I'm really curious if China will go after bytedance next in its crackdown.

My guess would be no. Alibaba, Tencent, DiDi, Meituan all are either local champions that have no competitive advantage overseas - and thus does not help China's growth. But TikTok actually represents that China might have a competitive advantage in deep learning algos that takes massive amount of data - therefore it would be spare from crackdowns.

FB, Google, AWS, and Azue all have a competitive advantage that China don't - English.

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Post by EamonnMR » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 8:05 PM UTC

The march away from language continues. Facial expressions may be a rich form of communication but the kinds of ideas you can communicate with them are severely restricted. Literacy was hard won and now it seems like we're letting it go. Then again, maybe I'm just too old to understand.