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Begining as A.me
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Rebranded to Douyin (抖音)
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TikTok was launched in the international market in September 2017
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On 9 November 2017, TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, spent up to US$1 billion to purchase musical.ly
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In April 2018, an addiction-reduction feature was added to Douyin. This encouraged users to take a break every 90 minutes. Later in 2018, the feature was rolled out to the TikTok app
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On 23 January 2018, the TikTok app ranked No. 1 among free app downloads on app stores in Thailand and other countries. TikTok has been made available in over 150 markets, and in 75 languages
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February 2019, TikTok, together with Douyin, hit one billion downloads globally, excluding Android installs in China.
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On 3 September 2019, TikTok and the US National Football League (NFL) announced a multi-year partnership
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In September 2020, a deal was confirmed between ByteDance and Oracle in which the latter will serve as a partner to provide cloud hosting
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In November 2020, TikTok signed a licensing deal with Sony Music
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TikTok has been intermittently blocked in countries including Indonesia and Bangladesh on different bases
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In July 2020, twenty lawsuits against TikTok were merged into a single class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
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TikTok was banned completely in India by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on 29 June 2020, along with 223 other Chinese apps
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On 6 August 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive order 13942 which would ban TikTok transactions in 45 days if it is not sold by ByteDance
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On October 11, 2020, Pakistan became the next country to ban the social media platform after not complying with issues regarding the content on the platform brought up by their government
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In January 2021, Warner Music Group signed a licensing deal with TikTok