It's no secret that Meta (Facebook) founder Mark Zuckerberg sees the social media app TikTok as a threat, which is gaining popularity faster than his company's applications.
In fact, the popularity of TikTok is growing so fast with each passing year that Facebook's concern is understandable.
According to a report by App Topia, a mobile app analyst company, in 2021, TikTok has overtaken WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger and Instagram in terms of downloads.
Yes, TikTok has become the most downloaded app in 2021 and for the second year in a row it has won this award.
Overall, in 2021, 656 million ticks were downloaded, while Instagram came in second with 545 million downloads.
Facebook came in third with 416 million downloads, WhatsApp fourth with 395 million downloads, Telegram fifth with 329 million downloads and SnapChat sixth with 327 million downloads.
According to the list, the video calling app Zoom was downloaded 300 million times and ranked 7th.
Facebook's other messenger app was the 8th largest with 268 million, Cape Kit 9th with 255 million and Spotify with 103 million the 10th largest app.
This is not the first time that TikTok has topped the list in 2021.
Earlier in the day, Cloud Flair, a cloud service company, released a list of the most visited websites of the year.
According to CloudFlare, TikTok has snatched the title of the world's most popular web address from Google in 2021.
This is the first time in 15 years that another domain has replaced Google.
Interestingly, TikTok was ranked 7th on the 2020 list, followed by Amazon, Netflix, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, but over the past 12 months, the Chinese site has reported possible corona viruses. Left everyone behind because of the epidemic.
Keep in mind that TikTok departure from Google is also impressive because it has only one billion monthly users, which is far less than Google and Facebook.
