<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> <P> www.tiktok.com (English) </P> www.douyin.com (Chinese) </Td> </Tr> <P> www.tiktok.com (English) </P> <P> TikTok, also known as Douyin (Chinese: 抖 音 短 视频; pinyin: Dǒuyīn duǎnshìpín; literally "vibrato short video") in China, is a social media app for creating and sharing videos as well as live broadcasting . Launched in September 2016 by ByteDance, it is a leading short video platform in Asia and has extended to other parts of the world, becoming one of the fastest - growing apps with a large community across several countries for short music videos . </P> <P> Douyin was launched by ByteDance in China in September 2016, and branded as TikTok for the international market when it started to expand into Indonesia in September 2017 . On 23 January 2018, the TikTok app ranked #1 among free mobile app downloads on app stores in Thailand . In February 2018, TikTok launched a partnership with Modern Sky to monetize music . </P>

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