With possible U.S. TikTok ban just days away, users flock to other apps

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With a imaginable TikTok prohibition conscionable days away, galore U.S. users are looking for alternate societal media platforms to assistance them support up with popular civilization oregon supply the benignant of entertaining videos that popularised the short-form video app.

TikTok, which has been a taste phenomenon, could beryllium banned connected January 19 nether a instrumentality that forces the level to chopped ties with its China-based genitor company, ByteDance, oregon unopen down its U.S. operation.

The destiny of societal media level volition beryllium decided by the Supreme Court, which past week heard oral arguments successful a ineligible situation to the statute and seemed apt to uphold the law. The tribunal could regularisation connected the lawsuit arsenic soon arsenic this week. Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump has asked the justices to enactment the instrumentality connected clasp truthful helium tin negociate a “political resolution” to the contented aft helium takes office.

TikTok has much than 170 cardinal users successful the U.S., and if it does get banned, it’s not wide which competitors volition payment the most. Some experts deliberation established societal media platforms, specified arsenic Instagram and YouTube, could spot the biggest influx of users. But immoderate users are looking for thing antithetic and could crook to different apps.

Here are the antithetic alternatives and what to cognize astir them:

Recently, immoderate U.S. TikTok users person flocked to the Chinese societal media app Xiaohongshu successful protestation of the looming ban. Like TikTok, Xiaohongshu, which successful English means “Little Red Book,” combines e-commerce and short-form videos.

The app has gained traction successful China and different regions with a Chinese diaspora — specified arsenic Malaysia and Taiwan — racking up 300 cardinal monthly progressive users, a bulk of whom are young women who usage it arsenic a de-facto hunt motor for product, question and edifice recommendations, arsenic good arsenic constitution and skincare tutorials.

On Tuesday, the Xiaohongshu, called “RedNote” by American users and connected immoderate app stores, was the apical downloaded escaped app successful Apple’s U.S. app store.