Regional TikTok user statistics differentiate significantly. Each major region has also experienced growth a different times.

Launched in 2016, TikTok rose to be one of the most popular social app and video platform for global users. In 2021, TikTok had approximately 656 million global users. This figure was projected to increase by around 15 percent year-over-year, reaching 755 million users in 2022. TikTok global installs peaked at the end of 2019, with the app amassing over 318 million downloads. During 2020 and 2021, TikTok download trends experienced a slower growth, amassing 173 million downloads from users worldwide during the last quarter of 2021.

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The average adult TikTok user in America spends 33 minutes per day on the app.

These TikTok user statistics tell the whole story of the new social media giant and give you some insights into the app's future.

Tiktok network graph with 5,638 nodes and 318,986 unique links, representing up to 790,599 weighted links between labels, using Gephi network analysis software.

Source of:

Peña-Fernández, Simón, Larrondo-Ureta, Ainara, & Morales-i-Gras, Jordi. (2022). Current affairs on TikTok. Virality and entertainment for digital natives. Profesional De La Información, 31(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5962655

Abstract:

Since its appearance in 2018, TikTok has become one of the most popular social media platforms among digital natives because of its algorithm-based engagement strategies, a policy of public accounts, and a simple, colorful, and intuitive content interface. As happened in the past with other platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, various media are currently seeking ways to adapt to TikTok and its particular characteristics to attract a younger audience less accustomed to the consumption of journalistic material. Against this background, the aim of this study is to identify the presence of the media and journalists on TikTok, measure the virality and engagement of the content they generate, describe the communities created around them, and identify the presence of journalistic use of these accounts. For this, 23,174 videos from 143 accounts belonging to media from 25 countries were analyzed. The results indicate that, in general, the presence and impact of the media in this social network are low and that most of their content is oriented towards the creation of user communities based on viral content and entertainment. However, albeit with a lesser presence, one can also identify accounts and messages that adapt their content to the specific characteristics of TikTok. Their virality and engagement figures illustrate that there is indeed a niche for current affairs on this social network.

As of January 2024, Instagram was slightly more popular with men than women, with men accounting for 50.6 percent of the platform’s global users. Additionally, the social media app was most popular amongst younger audiences, with almost 32 percent of users aged between 18 and 24 years.

              Instagram’s Global Audience

              As of January 2024, Instagram was the fourth most popular social media platform globally, reaching two billion monthly active users (MAU). This number is projected to keep growing with no signs of slowing down, which is not a surprise as the global online social penetration rate across all regions is constantly increasing.
              As of January 2024, the country with the largest Instagram audience was India with 362.9 million users, followed by the United States with 169.7 million users.

              Who is winning over the generations?

              Even though Instagram’s audience is almost twice the size of TikTok’s on a global scale, TikTok has shown itself to be a fierce competitor, particularly amongst younger audiences. TikTok was the most downloaded mobile app globally in 2022, generating 672 million downloads. As of 2022, Generation Z in the United States spent more time on TikTok than on Instagram monthly.

We learn high fidelity human depths by leveraging a collection of social media dance videos scraped from the TikTok mobile social networking application. It is by far one of the most popular video sharing applications across generations, which include short videos (10-15 seconds) of diverse dance challenges as shown above. We manually find more than 300 dance videos that capture a single person performing dance moves from TikTok dance challenge compilations for each month, variety, type of dances, which are moderate movements that do not generate excessive motion blur. For each video, we extract RGB images at 30 frame per second, resulting in more than 100K images. We segmented these images using Removebg application, and computed the UV coordinates from DensePose.

Download TikTok Dataset:

Please use the dataset only for the research purpose.

The dataset can be viewed and downloaded from the Kaggle page. (you need to make an account in Kaggle to be able to download the data. It is free!)

The dataset can also be downloaded from here (42 GB). The dataset resolution is: (1080 x 604)

The original YouTube videos corresponding to each sequence and the dance name can be downloaded from here (2.6 GB).

Use our TikTok profiles dataset to extract business and non-business information from complete public profiles and filter by account name, followers, create date, or engagement score. You may purchase the entire dataset or a customized subset depending on your needs. Popular use cases include sentiment analysis, brand monitoring, influencer marketing, and more. The TikTok dataset includes all major data points: timestamp, account name, nickname, bio,average engagement score, creation date, is_verified,l ikes, followers, external link in bio, and more. Get your TikTok dataset today!

Globally the average user spends 52 minutes on TikTok every day. About 90% of their worldwide users access TikTok on a daily basis.

As of April 2024, Bahrain was the country with the highest Instagram audience reach with 95.6 percent. Kazakhstan also had a high Instagram audience penetration rate, with 90.8 percent of the population using the social network. In the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Brunei, the photo-sharing platform was used by more than 85 percent of each country's population.

Use our TikTok Shop dataset to extract detailed e-commerce insights, including product names, prices, discounts, seller details, product descriptions, categories, customer ratings, and reviews. You may purchase the entire dataset or a customized subset tailored to your needs. Popular use cases include trend analysis, pricing optimization, customer behavior studies, and marketing strategy refinement. The TikTok Shop dataset includes key data points: product performance metrics, user engagement, customer reviews, and more. Unlock the potential of TikTok's shopping platform today with our comprehensive dataset!

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This dataset was initially used in the paper "The use and impact of TikTok in the 2022 Brazilian presidential election". It contains data from official TikTok accounts of the two main candidates running for the 2022 Brazilian presidential election, Lula (@lulaoficial) and Bolsonaro (@bolsonaromessiasjair). It was collected 576 posts of the candidates and more than 540 million interactions on these posts. Data encompass three periods of 2022: (i) Pre-campaign (Jun 30 to Aug 15); (ii) 1st round campaign (Aug 16 to Oct 1); and (iii) 2nd round campaign (Oct 2 - Oct 29). It contains two files. (i) Accounts: How many followers the candidate has, on a day-to-day basis, starting on Sept 5; and (ii) Posts and interactions: Individual data and metrics of each post, including date of the post, text, link for the post, number of plays, likes, comments and shares.

Teenagers make up the largest group of active users on TikTok.

As of April 2024, Facebook had an addressable ad audience reach 131.1 percent in Libya, followed by the United Arab Emirates with 120.5 percent and Mongolia with 116 percent. Additionally, the Philippines and Qatar had addressable ad audiences of 114.5 percent and 111.7 percent.

This is a dataset of videos and comments related to the invasion of Ukraine, published on TikTok by a number of users over the year of 2022. It was compiled by Benjamin Steel, Sara Parker and Derek Ruths at the Network Dynamics Lab, McGill University. We created this dataset to facilitate the study of TikTok, and the nature of social interaction on the platform relevant to a major political event.

The dataset has been released here on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7926959 as well as on Github: https://github.com/networkdynamics/data-and-code/tree/master/ukraine_tiktok

To create the dataset, we identified hashtags and keywords explicitly related to the conflict to collect a core set of videos (or ”TikToks”). We then compiled comments associated with these videos. All of the data captured is publically available information, and contains personally identifiable information. In total we collected approximately 16 thousand videos and 12 million comments, from approximately 6 million users. There are approximately 1.9 comments on average per user captured, and 1.5 videos per user who posted a video. The author personally collected this data using the web scraping PyTok library, developed by the author: https://github.com/networkdynamics/pytok.

Due to scraping duration, this is just a sample of the publically available discourse concerning the invasion of Ukraine on TikTok. Due to the fuzzy search functionality of the TikTok, the dataset contains videos with a range of relatedness to the invasion.

We release here the unique video IDs of the dataset in a CSV format. The data was collected without the specific consent of the content creators, so we have released only the data required to re-create it, to allow users to delete content from TikTok and be removed from the dataset if they wish. Contained in this repository are scripts that will automatically pull the full dataset, which will take the form of JSON files organised into a folder for each video. The JSON files are the entirety of the data returned by the TikTok API. We include a script to parse the JSON files into CSV files with the most commonly used data. We plan to further expand this dataset as collection processes progress and the war continues. We will version the dataset to ensure reproducibility.

To build this dataset from the IDs here:

1. Go to https://github.com/networkdynamics/pytok and clone the repo locally
2. Run pip install -e . in the pytok directory
3. Run pip install pandas tqdm to install these libraries if not already installed
4. Run get_videos.py to get the video data
5. Run video_comments.py to get the comment data
6. Run user_tiktoks.py to get the video history of the users
7. Run hashtag_tiktoks.py or search_tiktoks.py to get more videos from other hashtags and search terms
8. Run load_json_to_csv.py to compile the JSON files into two CSV files, comments.csv and videos.csv

If you get an error about the wrong chrome version, use the command line argument get_videos.py --chrome-version YOUR_CHROME_VERSION Please note pulling data from TikTok takes a while! We recommend leaving the scripts running on a server for a while for them to finish downloading everything. Feel free to play around with the delay constants to either speed up the process or avoid TikTok rate limiting.

Please do not hesitate to make an issue in this repo to get our help with this!

The videos.csv will contain the following columns:

video_id: Unique video ID

createtime: UTC datetime of video creation time in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format

author_name: Unique author name

author_id: Unique author ID

desc: The full video description from the author

hashtags: A list of hashtags used in the video description

share_video_id: If the video is sharing another video, this is the video ID of that original video, else empty

share_video_user_id: If the video is sharing another video, this the user ID of the author of that video, else empty

share_video_user_name: If the video is sharing another video, this is the user name of the author of that video, else empty

share_type: If the video is sharing another video, this is the type of the share, stitch, duet etc.

mentions: A list of users mentioned in the video description, if any

The comments.csv will contain the following columns:

comment_id: Unique comment ID

createtime: UTC datetime of comment creation time in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format

author_name: Unique author name

author_id: Unique author ID

text: Text of the comment

mentions: A list of users that are tagged in the comment

video_id: The ID of the video the comment is on

comment_language: The language of the comment, as predicted by the TikTok API

reply_comment_id: If the comment is replying to another comment, this is the ID of that comment

The date can be compiled into a user interaction network to facilitate study of interaction dynamics. There is code to help with that here: https://github.com/networkdynamics/polar-seeds. Additional scripts for further preprocessing of this data can be found there too.

This study focuses on a unique social media user migration phenomenon: a large number of U.S. users shifted to another Chinese social platform, Xiaohongshu, against the backdrop of the U.S. government's push to ban TikTok. By constructing a multidimensional analysis framework, this study systematically analyzes 5,919 user reviews collected during January 2025. The study uses MediaCrawler crawler technology to collect data, TextBlob for sentiment analysis, and combines geographic distribution, time trend and text theme analysis methods to deeply explore this unique user migration pattern. The study finds that despite policy pressure, users have a neutral to positive attitude towards platform migration, with 59.6% of neutral comments and 32.7% of positive comments. The analysis of geographic distribution shows that 88.7% of users in the United States have a significant “digital backlash”. Temporal trend analysis reveals the “bimodal” character of user discussions, reflecting the dynamic change of policy impact and users' continuous attention. Text analysis further shows that users are more concerned about the functional experience of the platform than political factors, reflecting rationality beyond geopolitics. These findings provide new perspectives for understanding social media user behavior in the context of globalization, and have important implications for social media policymaking and platform operation. The study suggests that in the digital era, administrative means have limited influence on users' platform choices, and users' social needs and behavioral choices often transcend geopolitical constraints.

In a context where there is permanent electoral campaigning, an increasing number of political communication experts are trying to unravel the resources used by government officials and their parties to influence TikTok users. From a broad perspective, the subject matter is not new, but it is topical; nonetheless, this research discloses a gap in the literature by amalgamating the recognition of idiosyncratic attributes of the feminisation of political discourse on TikTok with the analysis of the reactions (text and emojis) that the audiovisual content imbued by this trend elicits in users. The purpose is to ascertain whether the inclusive tone of the feminised rhetorical style can be extrapolated to TikTok and, if so, whether its particular characteristics mitigate expressions of incivility. To do so, the initial content posted (first seven months) on TikTok by the Spanish political platform Sumar with its leader, Yolanda Díaz, featuring prominently in most of the videos, were selected for scrutiny. A mixed methodology analysis of audiovisual content and comments showed that the anti-polarisation rhetoric and storytelling contributed to neutralising the extreme forms of flaming, although Sumar did not use a strategy tailor-made to suit TikTok.

TikTok has risen through the ranks to become the 5th most popular social media network worldwide.