{"id":17510,"date":"2020-05-29T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2574815"},"modified":"2020-05-29T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:35:00","slug":"tiktok-rating-back-to-4-4-after-google-deletes-more-than-8-million-reviews-from-play-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/29\/tiktok-rating-back-to-4-4-after-google-deletes-more-than-8-million-reviews-from-play-store\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok rating back to 4.4 after Google deletes more than 8 million reviews from Play Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"title_desc\">According to a new report, software giant Google restored the rating to its somewhat regular levels after about two weeks. Let&rsquo;s check out the details regarding this move here and how TikTok regained its rating on Google Play Store.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"rep-img\">\n<div class=\"art_topic_img\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-object img-responsive lazy lazy-loaded\" title=\"Tiktok\" src=\"https:\/\/st1.bgr.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tiktok.jpg\" alt=\"Tiktok\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/st1.bgr.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tiktok.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>It looks like the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.in\/tag\/google-play-store\/\">Google Play Store<\/a>&nbsp;rating for TikTok is back to its regular 4+ rating. According to a new report, software giant&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.in\/tag\/google\/\">Google<\/a>&nbsp;restored the rating to its somewhat regular levels after about two weeks. For some context, a dispute between&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.in\/tag\/youtube\/\">YouTubers<\/a>&nbsp;and TikTok influences pushed people to leave negative ratings. These ratings pushed the total rating of the app to plummed to about 1.2 stars. Taking a closer look, this rating did not accurately represent the quality of the app. Let&rsquo;s check out the details regarding this move here and how&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.in\/tag\/tiktok\/\">TikTok<\/a>&nbsp;regained its rating on Google Play Store.&nbsp;Also Read &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.in\/news\/google-plans-to-take-5-percent-stake-in-vodafone-idea-ltd-as-indias-telecom-market-becomes-attractive-894886\/\">Google plans to take 5 percent stake in Vodafone Idea Ltd: Report<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>TikTok Android app rating back to 4.4 stars; details<\/h2>\n<p>According to a report from&nbsp;<em>TechCrunch<\/em>, the situation started after the service faced a massive backlash in India. As part of the move,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.in\/tag\/google\/\">Google<\/a>&nbsp;also issued a statement to clarify its move to delete the negative ratings. Keywords demanding a ban, block, or deletion of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.in\/tag\/tiktok\/\">TikTok<\/a>&nbsp;have been trending on Twitter India for the last three weeks. Some reports outlined that a part of these calls was in response to disturbing videos on the platform. As per the report, some videos &ldquo;appeared to promote domestic violence, racism, animal cruelty, objectification of women, and more. Google refers to the deletion of the negative reviews as &ldquo;a corrective action&rdquo; to fight &ldquo;spam abuse&rdquo;.&nbsp;Also Read &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.in\/news\/mitron-app-indian-tiktok-rival-iit-rookee-student-developer-5-million-downloads-play-store-android-894584\/\">Meet Mitron App, the Indian rival to TikTok developed by IIT Roorkee student with over 5 million downloads<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Watch: Top 5 Android launchers you should try<\/h3>\n<p>The report notes that the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.zhiliaoapp.musically\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">TikTok app<\/a>&nbsp;rating as seen slight recovery in different markets to showcase 1.6 stars. For some context, the app currently sits on 1.4 stars in Europe. Mobile insight firm&nbsp;<em>Apptopia<\/em>&nbsp;also noted that the backlash pushed the user &ldquo;satisfaction&rdquo; from 86 percent, down to 39 percent.&nbsp;Also Read &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.in\/news\/tiktok-in-app-revenues-in-china-shoot-up-during-lockdown-894547\/\">TikTok in-app revenues in China shoot up during lockdown<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blockquote-box clearfix\">\n<div class=\"square pull-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy lazy-loaded\" title=\"Meet Mitron App, the Indian rival to TikTok developed by IIT Roorkee student with over 5 million downloads\" src=\"https:\/\/st1.bgr.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Mitron-App-Lead.jpg##image\/jpg\" alt=\"Meet Mitron App, the Indian rival to TikTok developed by IIT Roorkee student with over 5 million downloads\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/st1.bgr.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Mitron-App-Lead.jpg##image\/jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"fixedbottom_href\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is worth noting that such outrage against apps is not new in India. Looking back,&nbsp;<em>Snapchat<\/em>&nbsp;was at the receiving end of the outrage back in 2017. As a result, many users left poor ratings for&nbsp;<em>Snapdeal<\/em>, an e-commerce platform in India.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.in\/tag\/google-play-store\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.bgr.in\/tag\/google-play-store\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Staff<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Staff<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new report, software giant Google restored the rating to its somewhat regular levels after about two weeks. Let&rsquo;s check out the details regarding this move here and how TikTok regained its rating on Google Play Store. It looks like the&nbsp;Google Play Store&nbsp;rating for TikTok is back to its regular 4+ rating. According &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/05\/29\/tiktok-rating-back-to-4-4-after-google-deletes-more-than-8-million-reviews-from-play-store\/\">Continue reading <span>TikTok rating back to 4.4 after Google deletes more than 8 million reviews from Play Store<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/29\/tiktok-rating-back-to-4-4-after-google-deletes-more-than-8-million-reviews-from-play-store\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TikTok rating back to 4.4 after Google deletes more than 8 million reviews from Play Store - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/29\/tiktok-rating-back-to-4-4-after-google-deletes-more-than-8-million-reviews-from-play-store\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TikTok rating back to 4.4 after Google deletes more than 8 million reviews from Play Store - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to a new report, software giant Google restored the rating to its somewhat regular levels after about two weeks. 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