TikTok Ltd was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and is based in both Singapore and Los Angeles. Several countries have restricted or banned the use of TikTok due to national security concerns that user data could be collected by the Chinese government, children’s safety, antisemitism, addictiveness, terrorism toxic content, misinformation, and mental health. TikTok's popularity has resulted in the platform having an increasing cultural impact worldwide. Cloudflare ranked TikTok the most popular website of 2021, surpassing Google. Morning Consult named TikTok the third-fastest growing infotech brand of 2020, after Zoom and Peacock. In October 2020, TikTok surpassed 2 billion mobile downloads worldwide. Since their launches, TikTok and Douyin have gained global popularity.
It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from 3 seconds to 10 minutes.
TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin ( Chinese: 抖音 pinyin: Dǒuyīn: Shaking sound), is a short-form video hosting service owned by ByteDance.
