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TikTok, the extremely hot short video company, has hit 1 billion monthly active users and in the process validated the core thesis that AI (artificial intelligence) will drive discovery across all domains of markets. You are statistically better if you have 10 million amateurs who make videos than having 1000 movie legends make videos for users.

More than 1 billion people around the world now come to TikTok every month to be entertained as they learn, laugh, or discover something new. We’re honored to be a home for our immensely diverse community of families, small businesses, and creators who transform into our favorite stars.

On pure statistics, the probability of discovering virality is higher in the 10 million creators than in the 1000 makers.  But in the past, it was hard to do because computing resources to parse those 10 million videos were not readily available. But today, they are. And that has shown again the power of aggregation in digital platforms.

Meanwhile, TikTok parent company is ramping up its ecommerce playbook also: ‘TikTok owner ByteDance plans to launch in October an e-commerce app aimed at international online shoppers, Chinese media The Passage reported Thursday. Like Alibaba’s B2C platform Ali Express, the new app plans to sell Chinese-made products to global consumers. The move comes after Amazon blocked more than 50,000 Chinese retailers for alleged “suspicious behavior,” such as soliciting fake reviews.’ The company has already positioned itself as a platform for brand discovery, and with partnership with many companies, TikTok will pick some advertising revenues from Google and Facebook.

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Comment #1: Shockingly, UX and perception construct did it. I have learned that startups does not only need to be a solution, or make an analogue/traditional solution mobile but must;

1. Be appealing.
2. Accomodate what people want.
3. Be ingenious to an extent.
4. Ease of use.
5. Communities must be equitably represented.
6. Built on a resilient sustainability plan.

I was a “nayer” at first but downloaded it anyways? I have learned more in TikTok that all other social media combined.

TikTok Hits 1 Billion Monthly Users

The high-flying short video app, TikTok, has hit a new milestone, recording 1 billion monthly active users globally this summer, the company announced in a blog post on Monday.

More than 1 billion people around the world now come to TikTok every month to be entertained as they learn, laugh, or discover something new. We’re honored to be a home for our immensely diverse community of families, small businesses, and creators who transform into our favorite stars.

The result indicates a 45 percent jump since July 2020, as the app spreads like wildfire around the world. The United States, Europe, Brazil and Southeast Asia are the biggest markets for the popular short-video app, the company said.

Compared to every other social media app, TikTok has been on an unprecedented pace since it was launched in Beijing in 2016, setting unexpected records in a short while.

The company previously said it had about 55 million global users by January 2018. That number rose to more than 271 million by December 2018, 508 million by December 2019, and 689 million by July 2021.

With this speed of growth, TikTok will soon catch up with Facebook which reported 2.9 billion monthly active users as of the end of June 2021, according to its latest quarterly report.

TikTok faced existential threat during Trump’s presidency due to its link to China. The video sharing platform is owned by Chinese technology giant ByteDance, and was considered a threat to US national security by Trump, who alleged it’s being used by the Chinese military to collect personal data of American users.

Following the allegation, Trump signed an executive order mandating TikTok to sell to an American company. But the social media app got a reprieve last November when a federal judge halted the order. The judge ruled that Trump’s order would “have the effect of shutting down, within the United States, a platform for expressive activity used by approximately 700 million individuals globally. Over 100 million of these TikTok users are within the United States, and at least 50 million of these US users use the app on a daily basis.”

However, Trump’s order had prompted TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, to consider making some drastic changes, including moving its headquarters from China to London, to ease US pressure.

Earlier this year, TikTok appointed ByteDance’s CFO Shouzi Chew, a Singaporean national, as the new chief executive officer of the company.

TikTok’s troubles in the US were largely eased in June when President Joe Biden signed a new executive order, unbounding the restrictions on apps of Chinese origin operating in the United States, and altering former President Donald Trump’s many executive orders targeting Chinese apps.

TikTok has since then, introduced more features, including e-commerce, which spurred its growth around the world. Earlier this month, TikTok toppled YouTube in the US and UK on average view time per a user on the app, indicating high level of engagement.

With most of its US troubles laid to rest, at least for now, TikTok is soaring to be the largest social media app. The 1 billion monthly user’s milestone is an indication that the love for the app has escalated far beyond young people.

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has made it clear that he is not in sync with the group projecting him for the 2023 presidential race. As he does that, Senator Tinubu has not disowned Dayo Adeyeye led- ‘South West Agenda for 2023’ (SWAGA)  which is asking the APC chieftain to enter the fray. My permutation is this: Senator Tinubu is running.

Good People, if you have resources, I will not disassociate myself from any group asking me to run! Lol. Yes, go ahead and print the posters, and tell the world. I have 5 Pillars to transform Nigeria on my 3T2030 Agenda.  That agenda is to grow Nigeria’s economy from the current sub-$500 billion to $3 trillion (a factor of 6 growth) by 2030.

My plan is simple: expand the national balance sheet by unlocking dead assets in rural Nigeria. Because no nation has advanced without improved property rights, I will rights all lands, farmlands and properties, putting transferable velocity in them. 6 months – done.

I will kill corruption in the public sector. Within 3 months, a website will go live to make public all expenses above N10m (for security related, selected and vetted press will see). For EFCC, I will reform it, grading the Commission on efforts to prevent corruption rather than fighting corruption. We will measure what matters.

Good People, I am a teacher and I know that nations rise on knowledge. I will improve the tax code and through it unlock $10 billion to transform education. This does not mean paying more taxes. Rather, re-aligning the incentives to pay tax. The knowledge of nations is the wealth of nations.

My first pillar is to expand the national balance sheet by digitizing all farmlands (and properties) in Nigeria. I will do that within the first 6 months, using startups to grow and map lands. Each local government area will use its young people to do this job, and we will provide a market-driven process that will not cost the government anything. The plan is to make it easier for people with land assets to have access to credits even as we improve the ease to buy and sell these assets.

The ministry of lands under the existing land use act will receive immense technology evolution by bringing innovators to drive property rights in Nigeria. I expect to unlock massive wealth and open new visas for a dynamic rural economy in Nigeria. Yes, anyone with land  or property will suddenly become rich! I want those properties to show in the national balance sheet; today, they are invisible!

On the second pillar, we will build a largely Corruption-free public sector nation where it would be extremely impossible to perpetuate corruption because technology will make things obviously transparent. All government systems must be structured to be corruption-resilient so that people that want to perpetuate corruption will fail. We will publish any government expense that is more than N10 million in a web diary which all citizens will have access to. This applies to all levels in the federal government, from ministries to agencies.

For national security reasons, a segment will be available to the civil society and accredited press team. On EFCC, we will structure it to focus on preventing corruption rather than fighting corruption because it is more efficient and cheaper to prevent than to cure!

More pillars will be shared as we continue ….The master document remains with me.

Nigerians, 3T2030. A Greater Nigeria.