TikTok's influence has been greater than its seemingly short-lived demise. The ByteDance-owned app returns after going dark over the weekend.
While TikTok remains hugely popular in Brazil, Indonesia and other markets, its 170 million users in the United States are its most valuable.
TikTok is no longer available in the United States —at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based users.
TikTok was banned and restored within the same weekend. Find out what other apps owned by ByteDance, are in limbo below.
Disappointment, denial and confusion flooded US TikTok upon hearing that Chinese owner ByteDance planned to shut off the app by Sunday.
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A looming ban on TikTok set to take effect on Sunday presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google.
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With popular applications missing from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in the US thanks to a ban (which looks set to be repealed by President Trump once he is sworn in), Facebook and Instagram-owner Meta has swooped in to scoop up content creators left adrift.
Instagram lead Adam Mosseri recently took to the Meta-owned platform to announce Edits, the company's direct response to ByteDance's CapCut video editing software. "Today we’re
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Claims that TikTok had been sold circulated after the app went dark in response to a U.S. federal ban, then returned a short time later.