As a social media pro, you probably already use all the biggest social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) and media sharing sites (Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat), along with maybe a handful of others like Pinterest and Google Plus.

Forums, microblogging, social networking, social bookmarking, social curation, and wikis are among the different types of social media. Social media has become larger and more accessible thanks to access to mobile applications, with some examples of social media including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn.

The Different Types Of Social Media Platforms To Serve Ads: Social networking (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+). Microblogging (Twitter, Tumblr). Photo sharing (Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest). Video sharing (YouTube, Facebook Live, Periscope, Vimeo).

TikTok is a short-form, video-sharing app that allows users to create and share 15-second videos, on any topic. TikTok maintains a separate app for the Chinese market, known as Duyin, which has over 300 million active monthly users. The new app’s logo is a combination of the Musical.ly and Duyin logos.

TikTok is the 7th most-used social network With 689 million global active users as of January 2021, TikTok ranks as the 7th most used social network in the world. Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, and WeChat outpace the app, with more than a billion users in each case.

As explained by Sensor Tower: “TikTok was the most downloaded social media app worldwide for September 2019 with close to 60 million installs. The countries with the most installs of the app during this period were India at 44% of its total downloads and the United States at 8%.”

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Instagram still has a larger audience than TikTok and has been downloaded more than 1.8B times globally. While 2019 accounted for 28% of Instagram’s all-time downloads, TikTok was able to add 738 million new users in 2019, growing the app by 49% of its existing users in one year alone.

TikTok has beaten Instagram to reach the number two spot, according to a report. According to Piper Sandler, 34% teens picked Snapchat as their favourite social app followed by 29% picking TikTok. Instagram came in third with 25% of teenagers picking Facebook’s photo-sharing app.

The US Commerce Department announced Friday it would ban TikTok and WeChat from app stores on September 20. With the deadline just two days away, TikTok is rushing to put the finishing touches on a deal to assuage the US government’s concerns about national-security risks posed by the app’s ties to China.

TikTok will be banned in the US from Sunday. Users in the country will be stopped from downloading the video app as well as WeChat. If a deal is not struck by 12 November, the app will be fully banned, and using as well as downloading the app will be illegal, according to the order from the US Department of Commerce.