ByteDance denies former Blizzard CEO contacted Zhang Yiming

Recently, some media forwarded foreign media reports that the former CEO of Blizzard contacted Zhang Yiming to consider a 100 billion dollar acquisition of TikTok.

The official rumor of byte jumping today said that the report is untrue, and it has been verified that Zhang Yiming, the founder of the company, has not communicated with anyone about the matter.

In the field of short videos, ByteDance has received a lot of attention from many industry insiders both at home and abroad with its two software programs, Jitterbit and TikTok.

According to public information, TikTok was launched in May 2017, with the vision of "Inspire Creativity and Bring Joy".

Data show that in 2019, the market share of Jieyin and TikTok exceeded that of all western social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, and in May 2020, they were downloaded more than 2 billion times globally.

In 2021, TikTok was the most visited internet site in the world, and in October 2022, the number of daily active users of TikTok globally exceeded 1 billion.

As of March 2023, TikTok had 150 million monthly active users in the United States.