How TikTok silently became the most popular social media app

Prashi Badkur
5 min readFeb 21, 2022
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Earlier this year TikTok surpassed YouTube and became the third most popular platform for influencer marketing in the US. (Source: eMarketer, 2022)

With over a ~1B MAU it already has higher engagement than Snapchat and Twitter.

TikTok met this milestone due to its very shrewd focus on a lucrative…

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Prashi Badkur

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