Chinese social media app “RedNote” surges to the top apple’s App Store Highlights Concerns That TikTok Will Be Effectively Banned in the US Soon
RedNote, as it is known in China, is the #1 free app in the world. apple It was added to the app store as of Monday, followed by TikTok’s photo-sharing app Lemon8 and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Many TikTok creators are scrambling to find alternative ways to continue posting videos while waiting to see what happens with TikTok, which faces a possible ban on January 19th in the United States. The ban appears to favor the U.S. government’s argument that ByteDance’s ownership of TikTok poses a national security risk.
Lawyers representing TikTok and its creators argued that the law violates free speech protections for millions of users in the United States.
If the Supreme Court upholds this law, third-party service providers such as: apple and google It is unclear whether President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on January 20, will choose to implement the law.
Some TikTok creators are making contingency plans by moving to RedNote.
One content creator, who goes by the username allieusyaps, wrote in a post on Monday that TikTok being banned in the U.S. is “okay,” but that he and other TikTok creators “will not be going back to Instagram or Facebook.” said. I participated in RedNote.
“I might not have a job next week, but I’m about to learn Chinese!” one user wrote.
Another TikTok creator named Krystan Walmsley posted a short video teaching people how to set up and decorate their RedNote accounts.
“This app is so cute and so far so fun,” Walmsley said.
Shanghai-based RedNote was founded in 2013 and continues to take on more and more challenges. alibaba and Douyin, China’s ByteDance version of TikTok for e-commerce and social media. According to a report by the South China Morning Post, the number of monthly active users is approximately 300 million as of July 2024.
Red Note raised funding in July from investors including Boyu Capital and HongShan Capital Group, the former Chinese investment arm of Sequoia Capital, valuing it at $17 billion, according to Pitchbook. The company has raised more than $900 million in total funding and has more than 2,000 employees, according to Pitchbook.
Representatives for RedNote and TikTok did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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