TikTok is growing enormously popular – will that affect Western social media?

The fantastic performance of TikTok in the global market is shaking the ground and especially making its competitors worried. Confronting the severe block by WeChat, the dominant social application in China, it is also thriving on the competition in the Western marketplace where the challenge it has posed to Facebook and Instagram started catching attention from insiders. Here we would like to recommend an article that demonstrates the difference, core or peripheral, between TikTok and its western rivals, and gives several predictions about how Facebook is going to tackle the challenge if the threat from TikTok becomes fierce in the future.