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Wes Davis @ The Verge 1 place · today 13:34 EDT

TikTok now offers its Android app for download outside of Google Play

TikTok is now offering US downloads of the Android version of the app on its own website, the company announced last night. With the change, Android users in the United States now have an easy way to download or update the app for the first time since Google removed it from Google Play last month […]

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