If you have been following the spat between YouTubers and TikTokers in India, you would know that an influx of negative reviews from angered netizens tanked Tiktok’s Android app’s rating close to one. Yeah, TikTok went from a 4.5 rating to 1.2 within a couple of days. Google stepped to the occasion and fixed the app’s rating by deleting over eight million reviews that didn’t represent genuine feedback.
Several publications were able to pull screenshots showing the difference in the total number of reviews. The app had over 28 million reviews with a 1.2 rating a few days back but now it has 20 million reviews with a 4.4 rating. It will be interesting to see if Google keeps at it and individually removes spam reviews over the coming days.
