The company that owns TikTok now has one billion users and many are outside China

ByteDance(字节跳动), the Beijing-based startup behind popular short video platform(依托热门短视频平台) TikTok, has amassed(聚集) more than one billion monthly active users across its apps.

A company executive announced the milestone(里程碑，划时代的事件) at the Shanghai Film Festival this week. A ByteDance spokeswoman confirmed his remarks to CNN Business on Thursday, saying the billion mark was crossed earlier this year. 

ByteDance has more than a dozen apps including news aggregator Jinri Toutiao(新闻聚合今日头条),trending video platform Top Buzz(热门视频平台Top Buzz) and selfie app FaceU(自拍应用FacetU). But the company's global success is based on TikTok, where users share short videos of themselves lip-syncing(假唱,对嘴), cooking, dancing or just being silly. 

As of March, TikTok was the most downloaded app in Apple's (AAPL) App Store for five consecutive quarters(连续五个季度), according to market research firm Sensor Tower(调研公司感应塔). Overall, it was the third most downloaded app worldwide for the first three months of this year. 

Read MoreThe video platform hit 1 billion downloads worldwide in February, Sensor Tower said, of which nearly 100 million came from the United States and 250 million came from India. TikTok's international appeal sets it apart from other Chinese social media platforms(TikTok的国际吸引力使其有别于其他中国社交媒体平台) such as Tencent's (TCEHY) WeChat, Sina Weibo (WB) and Alibaba's (BABA) Youku, which have struggled to win over users beyond their home turf (国内范围).  Tencent's WeChat hit a billion users last year, but the vast majority of them are in China.

People use TikTok to share short videos of themselves dancing, lip-syncing, cooking or just being silly. ByteDance's success has attracted big investors, including tech kingmaker SoftBank (SFTBY)(技术巨头软银). The injection of cash from SoftBank reportedly valued ByteDance at $75 billion late last year, making it the world's most valuable start up ahead of The We Company, owners of WeWork, and e-cigarette company Juul. 

It hasn't all been smooth sailing, however. In February, TikTok was hit with a record fine by the US Federal Trade Commission(美国联邦贸易委员会) for collecting data on children under the age of 13(收集有关13岁以下儿童的数据). 

The fine related to Musical.ly, a video-sharing app Bytedance bought in 2017 and merged with (合并) TikTok last August. In India, TikTok was pulled from app stores(TikTok被从应用商店下架) in April over claims it made children vulnerable to pornographic and other inappropriate content(它致使儿童易受色情和其他不当内容的影响). 

The ban was lifted(该禁令被解除) after two weeks, after ByteDance successfully appealed the court ruling(法庭裁决). And while a billion users is an impressive feat(壮举;巨大成就) for the seven-year-old startup, Bytedance still trails far behind(远远落后于) Facebook , which has more than 5 billion monthly active users including its WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram platforms.

Notes

ByteDance(字节跳动)

behind popular short video platform(依托热门短视频平台)

amassed(聚集) 

milestone(里程碑，划时代的事件) 

news aggregator Jinri Toutiao(新闻聚合今日头条)

trending video platform Top Buzz(热门视频平台Top Buzz)

selfie app FaceU(自拍应用FacetU)

lip-syncing(假唱,对嘴)

five consecutive quarters(连续五个季度)

market research firm(调研公司)

home turf (国内范围)

tech kingmaker SoftBank (SFTBY)(技术巨头软银)

US Federal Trade Commission(美国联邦贸易委员会)

collecting data on children under the age of 13(收集有关13岁以下儿童的数据)

merged with (合并) 

TikTok was pulled from app stores(TikTok被从应用商店下架) 

The ban was lifted(该禁令被解除) 

court ruling(法庭裁决)

impressive feat(壮举;巨大成就)

trails far behind(远远落后于) 

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