TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote as US ban looms
Source: BBC
TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote as US ban looms
14 January 2025
Koh Ewe
BBC News
TikTok users in the US are migrating to a Chinese app called RedNote with the threat of a ban just days away.
The move by users who call themselves "TikTok refugees" has made RedNote the most downloaded app on Apple's US App Store on Monday.
RedNote is a TikTok competitor popular with young people in China, Taiwan and other Mandarin-speaking populations.
It has about 300 million monthly users and looks like a combination of TikTok and Instagram. It allows users, mostly young urban women, to exchange lifestyle tips from dating to fashion.
Supreme Court justices are due to rule on a law that set a 19 January deadline for TikTok to either sell its US operations or face a ban in the country.
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My youngest said she wanted to learn how to say “slay” in Chinese so that she could comment on videos. She also wants to be able to read what’s on the app. I’m cool w it but I’m guessing that’s not where Republicans were going w this. 