What to know about Triller, TikTok's newest (and biggest) competitor
Ever since ByteDance Ltd. acquired Musical.ly and merged it into TikTok in 2018, the video-sharing app has shown no signs of slowing down. In April, TikTok became the first app since 2014 to surpass 2 billion downloads on both the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store. Recently, though, the fate of TikTok — in the United States, at least — has become uncertain. President Trump declared on Aug. 3 that unless the Chinese app was acquired by an American company he would ban it. with the app’s fate so uncertain, at least one video-sharing app has managed to capitalize on that uncertainty: Triller. First introduced in 2015, Triller is a self-described “game-changing music video maker app”. Like TikTok, you can use the app — and its 100-plus filters — to make short music videos and other viral clips. Celebrities on the platform include Marshmello, The Weeknd, Millie Bobby Brown, Brad Paisley and Mike Tyson. According to the L.A. Times, rappers Snoop Dogg and Lil Wayne are also investors in the company
