Released in September 2016, TikTok is a popular social media app for iOS and Android devices. It primarily features videos under 15 seconds that are created when users add visuals to a preselected audio track from a library of songs and community-created audio snippets. Users can also create a “duet” response to videos they’ve viewed. These features provide opportunities for users to collaborate with one another, making videos based on the same original concept.

TikTok gained new features and users from Musical.ly, a similar app that was acquired by ByteDance on August 2, 2018, and then merged into TikTok. Because of its vast user base and focus on short-form content, many consider TikTok to be a successor to the discontinued app, Vine.

The TikTok app is available for free from the Apple App Store or the Google Play store.

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The United States Senate passed a bill on December 15, 2022 that bans TikTok on U.S. government-issued devices.

  • What program can I use to edit videos?
  • The official TikTok website.