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No chance they have 1B DAU. That doesn’t pass the sniff test. That’s like 1.5B MAU, which is even more ridiculous. But let’s look.. 7 billion people, 4.5B hav
by soared 6y ago
No chance they have 1B DAU. That doesn’t pass the sniff test.
That’s like 1.5B MAU, which is even more ridiculous. But let’s look.. 7 billion people, 4.5B have internet access. So more than over 15% of humans with internet access are using tiktok every day.
3.5B humans have a smart phone, so 1 in 3 are on tiktok every day? Nah.
And honestly, I’m fairly even on china but I don’t really believe numbers the put out for most things.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/617136/digital-population-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/617136/digital-populatio...
https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/how-many-phones-are-in-the-world https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/how-many-phones-are-in-the-w...
- gibolt 6y ago1.5B MAU is not unreasonable. A majority of Chinese users are using it. It is superfluous when you ride the subway or eat in a restaurant. Everyone. That alone could be .75-1+B. Then you only need a relatively small percentage of the rest of the world to reach that number. Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it is not real.
- ailun 6y agoNo, Chinese users use Douyin.
- randompwd 6y agoTikTok isn't in China. Its sibling app Douyin is. Both owned by same parent company.
- ponker 6y ago> superfluous I do not think that word means what you think it means.
- jahlove 6y agoSuperfluous or ubiquitous?
- chrstphrknwtn 6y agoIt is indeed superfluous.
- exdsq 6y agoThis doesn’t surprise me - I discovered my 50 year old mum has TikTok today, and met some undergrads recently who said it was the only app they really used. Seems to have a huge market!
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- three_seagrass 6y agoIt took Charli D'Amelio just 12 months to get 60 Million followers on TikTok, which took Pewdiepie 10 years on Youtube. The hype is believable.
- AlphaSite 6y agoYoutube is longer format, so the difference makes sense. People just don't consume as much.
- hbosch 6y ago60 million accounts are following them, I doubt it is 60 million individual people. In reality, probably far less.
- ehsankia 6y agoWell by that same logic, it's 1B DA(accounts), not users, probably.
- Yousafkhan555 6y agoExactly
- gguevaraa 6y agoAlthough not entirely unbelievable, I would imagine there's some typical metric inflation going on[0]. [0]: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-27/everything-fake-ex-reddit-ceo-confirms-internet-traffic-metrics-are-bullshit https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-27/everything-fake-ex...
- gruez 6y agotweet quoted from the article: >No one has figured out how to count logged-out mobile users, as I learned at reddit. Every time someone switches cell towers, it looks like another user and inflates company user metrics How hard is it to generate a uuid on first startup and use that to track logged out app users? Or are they being willfully blind just so they can inflate their metrics?
- kaishiro 6y agoYeah, you get this "for free" with Firebase Auth when you enable anonymous authentication. I suspect this is one of those cases where they simply don't want the real number.
- giantrobot 6y agoWillfully blind. Why do anything do deflate their usage statistics?
- KorematsuFred 6y agoA huge chunk of Indian people were using it. The app is indeed very addictive. I wonder what % of userbase they must have lost now that India has banned them.
- Temasik 6y ago>chinked