What Was the Old TikTok?

TikTok, the popular social media platform, has been around since 2016. But what was the old TikTok?

Well, it started off as a lip-synching app called Musical.ly. It was launched in 2014 and quickly became one of the most downloaded apps of that year. The app allowed users to create short lip-synching videos and share them with their friends and followers.

The videos were typically 15 seconds long and users could add music from their library or from the app’s music library. There were also options to add special effects like filters or stickers to make the videos more creative. The app also had a leaderboard feature that allowed users to compete for the highest number of likes and views on their videos.

In late 2017, Musical.ly was acquired by Chinese technology company ByteDance for an estimated $1 billion. After the acquisition, ByteDance made some changes to the app and rebranded it as TikTok in early 2018. The new version of TikTok had more features such as a “For You” page that showed recommended content based on user preferences, live streaming capabilities, and tools for creating longer videos up to one minute in length.

TikTok also had a feature called Duets which allowed users to collaborate on creating a video together with another user who had already created a video on the same topic but from different perspectives. This feature proved to be extremely popular and helped TikTok become even more successful.

Conclusion: The old TikTok was Musical.ly – an app that allowed users to create short lip-synching videos with music from their library or from the app’s library and add special effects like filters or stickers to make them more creative. After its acquisition by ByteDance in late 2017, Musical.ly was rebranded as TikTok in early 2018 with new features such as a “For You” page, live streaming capabilities, tools for creating longer videos up to one minute in length, and Duets – a feature which allowed users to collaborate on creating a video together with another user who had already created a video on the same topic but from different perspectives.