2018 September 18, Qian Chen, “The biggest trend in Chinese social media is dying, and another has already taken its place”, in CNBC[1], archived from the original on 2020-11-16:
Known as TikTok in markets outside of China, Douyin has begun to gain international popularity: The app's global monthly active user count reached 500 million across over 150 countries and regions, it said in June.
2022 August 19, Reuters, “ByteDance's Douyin teams up with Alibaba's Ele.me in mini programme push”, in Reuters[2], archived from the original on 2022-08-20:
Ele.me would be one of the biggest players to date that Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of TikTok, has brought into its mini-programme platform that it launched some two years ago.
