With a Jan. 19 shutdown looming for TikTok in the United States, users looking for an alternative outlet have helped push a popular Chinese media platform to the top of Apple’s most popular apps.

TikTok refugees fled by the millions to RedNote, a Chinese app, in response to the TikTok ban, which went into effect Jan. 19, 2025. The company shut down the app shortly before midnight on Jan. 18 ...

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As the future of TikTok hangs in the balance of Congress and the Supreme Court, another Chinese social media app is rising to take TikTok's place in the U.S. Unless Bytedance, TikTok's parent company, ...

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Time might be running out here for TikTok, a video-sharing app that — according to a July 2024 report from a web-search strategy business — boasts about 170 million users throughout the United States.

As uncertainty hovers around the TikTok ban that could go into effect in the U.S. on Sunday, users are flocking to a Chinese app called RedNote. The app allows users to upload short-form videos and ...

As it stands, TikTok is on track to being banned in the United States on Jan. 19. (That is, if ByteDance, the Chinese tech company that owns the app, doesn't sell its US operations by then — TBD.) If ...

As the impending United States TikTok ban grows closer, Americans are beginning to look for another form of social media to replace the app. The ban, which was signed by President Joe Biden due to ...

The Chinese social media app saw a surge of traffic on Monday, Jan. 13, six days before TikTok could be banned in the U.S. Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at ...