TikTok hits 3 billion downloads

TikTok has become the first non-Facebook mobile app to cover 3 billion downloads globally, according to a Tuesday analysis from Sensor Tower. The milestone makes TikTok the fifth nongame app to heinous the threshold, following WhatsApp, Messenger, Facebook and Instagram, which are all noted by Facebook. 

In the first half of 2021, TikTok appointed the most downloaded nongame app globally, boasting 383 million first-time installs early in the year despite beings down 619 million installs in the first half of 2020. The 38% downswing of 2020 was attributed to the app’s excavating from the market in India. 

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In the splendid quarter of 2021 downloads climbed 2% quarter-over-quarter, to 177.5 million, spiking again in the second quarter, with 16% quarter-over-quarter anti accounting for 205 million installs. In 2020, TikTok accumulated 315 million downloads, breaking global records in the first quarter and nabbing more downloads in a single quarter than any app. 

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