How Ten Ten works, the strange app that is a hit in France
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 5:35 am
By Astrid Ruiz
Marketing4eCommerce Editor
HHere's a new app that's drawing the attention of younger users. It's called Ten Ten , which lets you turn your phone into a live walkie-talkie so your friends, family or loved ones can contact you anytime, anywhere via voice calls.
The striking (and worrying) thing about this app is that users can communicate with you even if your phone is locked or you are performing any action with it. This can lead to toxic behavior and a loss of privacy.
TikTok has helped Ten Ten go viral
Founded in 2021 , Ten Ten was created by Frenchmen, Jule Colmar and Antoine Baché , who now hold the positions of CEO and CTO respectively, with the idea of communicating with their friends and roommates as if they were in the same room, without the need to call each other or record an audio.
According to Colmar, its name is "a nod to the Citizen uruguay number data Band short-range radio communications system ," where the code 10-10 means "transmission completed, waiting."
At the time of its creation, the application was not very successful and it was not until the end of May this year that Ten Ten experienced a sudden boom . This even caused the platform to suffer technical problems due to the large number of connections it had.
According to figures collected by the French digital newspaper, Le Monde, Ten Ten has six million active users per month . Meanwhile, according to data from data.ai , it is the second most downloaded app in France , both on iOS and Android. However, for the moment, in Spain and Italy it has not surpassed the threshold of the 100 most downloaded.
Much of Ten Ten's sudden success is due to videos that have been circulating on TikTok showing users using it and sharing their details to be added. Some of these videos have received millions of views, which has helped more people learn about the app.
Marketing4eCommerce Editor
HHere's a new app that's drawing the attention of younger users. It's called Ten Ten , which lets you turn your phone into a live walkie-talkie so your friends, family or loved ones can contact you anytime, anywhere via voice calls.
The striking (and worrying) thing about this app is that users can communicate with you even if your phone is locked or you are performing any action with it. This can lead to toxic behavior and a loss of privacy.
TikTok has helped Ten Ten go viral
Founded in 2021 , Ten Ten was created by Frenchmen, Jule Colmar and Antoine Baché , who now hold the positions of CEO and CTO respectively, with the idea of communicating with their friends and roommates as if they were in the same room, without the need to call each other or record an audio.
According to Colmar, its name is "a nod to the Citizen uruguay number data Band short-range radio communications system ," where the code 10-10 means "transmission completed, waiting."
At the time of its creation, the application was not very successful and it was not until the end of May this year that Ten Ten experienced a sudden boom . This even caused the platform to suffer technical problems due to the large number of connections it had.
According to figures collected by the French digital newspaper, Le Monde, Ten Ten has six million active users per month . Meanwhile, according to data from data.ai , it is the second most downloaded app in France , both on iOS and Android. However, for the moment, in Spain and Italy it has not surpassed the threshold of the 100 most downloaded.
Much of Ten Ten's sudden success is due to videos that have been circulating on TikTok showing users using it and sharing their details to be added. Some of these videos have received millions of views, which has helped more people learn about the app.