TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube in downloads last month

Re:TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube i... by askafriend on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:56PM (#18366679)

When it's the strongest signal you have in your business, as an entrepreneur you've got to sell it. And in self-interest, TechCrunch wants to help sell the story so they're going to use the strongest signal the business will give them to validate relevancy.

Those are likely the mechanics at play when the result is a title like that.

Like you're saying, it's not really impressive, but it's probably the most interesting thing about the business (fortunately or unfortunately).

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Re:TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube i... by acpetrov on Friday November 02, 2018 @07:36PM (#18367608)

I wonder about the rate of reinstallations though. Over a month, some steady percentage of users is changing phones and reinstalling apps. If a new app is able to beat the (new installs + %reinstalls) of giant apps, that's impressive.

If the app stores don't count reinstalls as downloads, then, well, sorry you wasted your time reading this

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Re:TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube i... by jobigoud on Saturday November 03, 2018 @03:21AM (#18369138)

Some phones have these apps preinstalled. I never used Facebook but I can't fully uninstall it from my Samsung Galaxy phone.

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Re:TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube i... by wuliwong on Monday November 05, 2018 @07:26PM (#18387287)

I think surprasing facebook, snapchat and instagram in monthly downloads is still impressive. Maybe you just mean that it isn't impressive enough to have you believe that TikTok is going to dethrone FB. I can get behind that. But if I were the founder of TikTok, I'd be well impressed with myself at the moment. :)

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