TikTok beats Instagram to become the second most popular social media app for US teens

All the trouble in the US and Donald Trump’s administration aside, TikTok is having quite a good run in the States. The ByteDance-owned short-video app is now the second most popular app for US teenagers, with Snapchat being the first. TikTok has beaten Instagram to reach the number two spot, according to a report.

According to Piper Sandler, 34% teens picked Snapchat as their favourite social app followed by 29% picking TikTok. Instagram came in third with 25% of teenagers picking Facebook’s photo-sharing app. TikTok was number three in the Spring 2020 version of the Piper Sandler report, writes CNBC.