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TikTok Design Can Be More Critical Than the Algorithm
Details of the application do it the media of the moment
TikTok makes your day. The social app for short videos reached 2 billion downloads this pandemic year.
Balances for 2020 already place the app as one of the main highlights of technology and culture.
Analysts expect that TikTok will soon reach the “1 billion monthly active users” club.
Zhang Yiming founded ByteDance in 2012. The platform for sharing videos, Douyin, TikTok’s original name, was launched four years later (September 2016).
Since 2018, when it had 300 million users, social media has tripled in size.
The competitive environment of Chinese technological development shows that TikTok’s design is a successful product. The best engineers are on the project.
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