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Friday, August 14, 2020

Who Created TikTok and When Will Tik Tok Get Shut Down?

These days, Tik Tok affair is very noisy, so you know Tik Tok? Today I want to talk a little bit about Tiktok and a tool to convert video format from Tik Tok.

 

 

Who Created TikTok?

TikTok/Douyin is a Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance,a Beijing-based Internet technology company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming. It is used to create short music, lip-sync, dance, comedy and talent videos of 3 to 15 seconds, and short looping videos of 3 to 60 seconds. ByteDance first launched Douyin for the Chinese market in September 2016. Later, TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China; however, it only became available worldwide, including the United States, after merging with Musical.ly on August 2, 2018.

 

TikTok and Douyin are almost identical to each other with respect to functionality and user interface, but run on separate servers and have no access to each other’s content to comply with Chinese censorship restrictions and to mitigate other countries' national security concerns. TikTok and Douyin's servers are each based in the market where the respective app is available.  In addition to the ByteDance headquarters in Beijing, TikTok also has global offices, including in Dublin, Los Angeles, New York City, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo. Since its launch in 2016, TikTok/Douyin rapidly gained popularity in East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the United States, Turkey, Russia, and other parts of the world. As of August 2020, TikTok, excluding Douyin, has surpassed 1 billion users worldwide in less than four years. As of April 2020, Douyin has around 500 million monthly active users. 

 

 

When Will TikTok Get Shut Down?

Talk of a TikTok ban was originally sparked earlier this month when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US was considering restricting the video-based social network, which is headquartered in China. Soon after, Trump confirmed that a TikTok ban was being discussed as “one of many” ways to retaliate against China over coronavirus: “Look, what happened with China with this virus, what they’ve done to this country and to the entire world is disgraceful.”

 

The ban in question would include not just TikTok, but all Chinese social media apps. And while a ban of this kind would be a first in the US, it’s not without its precedents. For two years, Trump has been campaigning to not just ban the products made by China’s Huawei (a telecommunications equipment company), but to upend every part of its business, in what looks like a trade war masquerading as a national security concern.

 

Beyond these statements, little else has been said regarding the potential TikTok ban. But whatever the decision – to ban, not to ban, to impose restrictions or not – Meadows expects it to be made soon. Whatever it may be, it will take a lot to convince Apple and Google to forfeit one of their most popular apps. 

 

A spokesperson for TikTok told Refinery29 in a statement: “Protecting the privacy of our users’ data is a critical priority for TikTok. User data is stored in the US and Singapore, with minimal access across regions, and our American Chief Information Security Officer has decades of US law enforcement and security experience. TikTok's parent is a privately owned company backed by some the best-known US investors, which hold four of its five board seats. TikTok is enjoyed by hundreds of millions of people around the world, but the app is not even available in China. As we have said repeatedly, we have never shared TikTok user data with the Chinese government, and would not do so if asked. Period."

 

 

A Tool to Convert Videos Format From Tik Tok

Leawo Video Converter is a professional video/audio converting program, offering solutions for you to convert video/audio files between 180+ formats, such as MP4 to MKV, MP4 to AVI, MKV to MP4, MKV to MP3, MP3 to AAC, etc. The program accepts not only video/audio file, but also video/audio folder input, and conversion in batch is also available with the help of this professional video converter. Other features like merging, trimming, cropping, watermarking, adjusting video effect, applying 3D effect, etc. are provided as well.provided as well.


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