when was tiktok india launched

when was TikTok India launched

The new app will assume the name TikTok, 

meaning the end of the Musical.ly brand name. Musical.ly announced the changes at a party on the evening of Aug. 1. ... Its predominantly young user base was drawn to the way the app allowed them to post short clips of themselves lip-syncing to popular songs

Tiktok ByteDance first launched Douyin for the China market in September 2016. Later TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in markets outside of China. It became available in the United States after merging with musical.ly on 2 August 2018.

TikTok was launched in 2017, and the following year, its parent company, the Chinese media business ByteDance, acquired Musical.ly, a social media platform for sharing music videos, for $1 billion and merged it with TikTok