How many users does TikTok have?

Founded in September 2016. TikTok has gained popularity relatively recently. The number of TikTok users has been growing exponentially for less than 5 years… The increase in the number of users is recorded in almost every latitude in the world!

TikTok’s latest statistics show that as of January 2021, the platform had 689 million monthly active users worldwide (DataReportal, 2021). This makes TikTok the seventh largest platform in terms of users worldwide, ahead of others that have been around much longer, such as Snapchat, Pinterest, and Twitter.

To give you an idea of how other apps compare to TikTok’s growth, take a look at Instagram’s history. It took Instagram six years after its launch to gain analogous popularity. TikTok managed to achieve this result in less than three years. Facebook, widely known as the most powerful social network took 4 years to build up the same about of active users as TikTok.

Additionally, the 689 million TikTok users discussed in this article do not include users in China, where TikTok’s headquarters, ByteDance, is located.

TikTok in China operates under a different name. The Chinese version of TikTok, operates under the name Douyin and boasts 600 million daily active users. Together, TikTok and Douyin have 1.29 billion active users worldwide.