TikTok just beat Google at the internet

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TikTok is popular, everyone knows that. But just how popular is it?

TikTok just beat Google at the internet

This week, cloud infrastructure company Cloudflare released its Year in Review 2021 — the equivalent of Spotify Wrapped for web traffic data (how exciting).

The kicker? Cloudflare’s report had TikTok shoot up from 7th place in 2020 to 1st place in 2021, dethroning Google of the top spot.

The list comes with one major caveat, however. Google owns YouTube, but they’re counted separately on this list. Now, just imagine if they were counted together…
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