TikTok has turn out to be the world’s most downloaded app in 2020 because it surpassed Fb Messenger, in keeping with digital analytics firm App Annie.
The Chinese language video-sharing platform is the one app not owned by Fb to be included on the planet’s prime 5 downloads.
That is the primary time {that a} Chinese language app took the highest spot from the Fb because the survey began in 2018.
Fb’s flagship app in addition to WhatsApp, Instagram and Fb Messenger maintain the remaining 4 spots within the prime give downloads.
Final 12 months, then-President Donald Trump issued an government order to ban new downloads of the TikTok app within the US over safety considerations.
The app has additionally been going through restrictions in Pakistan on and off as a consequence of sharing of immoral content material on the platform by its customers.
Final month, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, on the primary day of Eidul-Adha, banned the favored video-sharing app for the fourth time underneath the Cybercrime Act, 2016.
PTA additionally shared a tweet on its official deal with concerning the growth. “In the light of relevant provisions of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016, PTA has blocked access to TikTok App and website in the country,” the authority wrote.
“The action has been taken due to the continuous presence of inappropriate content on the platform and its failure to take such content down.”
The most recent ban, which coincides with Eidul Adha celebrations, got here practically three weeks after the Sindh Excessive Courtroom revoked the ban on TikTok. On June 28, the court docket ordered the PTA to droop the providers of the video-sharing web site on a citizen’s petition, which moved the court docket to take away the immoral and obscene content material” on the Chinese language-owned platform.
The video-sharing platform was first blocked in Pakistan final 12 months in October, over its obscene and immoral content material.
