Despite the decision of the Army and the Navy in the United States to prohibit the use of their members to the application of social networking "Tik Tok" for security reasons, the application has become the second place in the list of most downloaded applications in the world during the past year.
According to the report issued by the company «Sensors Tower» concerned with monitoring the application market, it has been downloaded “Tik Tok” application more than 700 million times over the past year around the world, surpassing the application “Facebook” and “Facebook Messenger”.
The application "WhatsApp" came in first place as the most downloaded in the world, as it has been downloaded more than 850 million times during the past year thanks to its wide popularity in India in particular. The application "Tik Tok" also benefited from its wide popularity in India, which has a population of more than one billion people, as the application download rate reached 45% in India during the past year. The number of downloads of the WhatsApp application in the last quarter of last year increased by 39% over the same period of the previous year, according to the "Sensor Tower".
It is noteworthy that the application “Tik Tok” for social communication, which is widespread among young people and adolescents, allows the exchange of short video files of no more than 15 seconds, accompanied by a musical rhythm. This application uses artificial intelligence algorithms to know the user's preferences and to evaluate the types of videos he watches and the time spent watching them in order to provide the content that the user needs. The application, owned by the Chinese company, "Bit Dance", has been downloaded more than 1.5 billion times. And by doing so, it has become the highest value-added emerging company in the world.