TikTok increases nearly 9 crore Indian users in Q1
TikTok increases nearly 9 crore Indian users in Q1
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Chinese video sharing app TikTok’s popularity is increasing in india. continuing its dramatic rise in country,the company added 8.86 crore users in the first quarter of 2019, according to a new report.

According to the analysis by mobile app intelligence firm Sensor Tower, this was 8.2 times more new installs than TikTok saw in the country in Q1 of last year,

TikTok became controversial in the past for illegally collecting personal information from children in the US and in other places for inappropriate content. Hearing a petition filed by an advocate, the Madras High Court earlier this month asked the Centre to ban the app, saying it "encourages pornography" and is spoiling the future of youths and the minds of children.

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Owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance, Tik Tok  on Friday said as part of its commitment towards providing a positive in-app environment for its users in India, it had removed over six million videos that have violated its "Community Guidelines". The short-video sharing app has also introduced its age-gate feature for its new users, which will only allow users aged 13 years and above to login and create an account on TikTok .

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In terms of its reach, TikTok has just had its best first quarter ever, adding an estimated 188 million during Q1, according to data analysis by Sensor Tower.

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Sensor Tower founder Oliver Yeh wrote in a blog post this week, "This marked a year-over-year increase of 70 per cent from Q1 2018, when 110 million users installed ByteDance's hit app for the first time.” Yeh further added, "This growth was largely driven by India, where an estimated 88.6 million new users flocked to the app last quarter.”

 

 

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