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TikTok tops Google to world’s most popular app title

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By Abdulfatah
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PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 05: In this photo illustration, the social media application logo, Tik Tok is displayed on the screen of an iPhone on March 05, 2019 in Paris, France. The social network broke the rules for the protection of children's online privacy (COPPA) and was fined $ 5.7 million. The fact TikTok criticized is quite serious in the United States, the platform, which currently has more than 500 million users worldwide, collected data that should not have asked minors. TikTok, also known as Douyin in China, is a media app for creating and sharing short videos. Owned by ByteDance, Tik Tok is a leading video platform in Asia, United States, and other parts of the world. In 2018, the application gained popularity and became the most downloaded app in the U.S. in October 2018. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

Video-focused social networking service app, TikTok has been named as the most popular app in 2021 — overtaking last year’s top favourite Google.

According to a new tech report, TikTok beat out other well-known domains that outranked it in 2020, such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix, data from web security company Cloudflare shows.

Cloudflare found that TikTok, which ranked seventh to No. 1 Google in 2020, got a little “help” from the pandemic, boosting the app to the top spot this year, New York Post reports.

TikTok and Google flip-flopped for the top spot throughout the year — including in October and November, when Google reigned supreme, according to Cloudflare.

But eventually, TikTok took over — and outranked Google.com, which includes Maps, Translate, Photos, Flights, Books and News, on days like Thanksgiving and Black Friday.

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Overall in 2021, TikTok was closely followed by Google in second place and Facebook in third.

Microsoft and Apple completed the top five spots.

Ranked sixth was Amazon, followed by Netflix, (7) Youtube (8), Twitter (9) and WhatsApp in 10th.

Wildly popular among the younger generation, TikTok has inspired the launch of other platforms, like Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and Triller.

In September, the viral social media app said it hit 1 billion monthly active global users.

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