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.

TikTok users are joining RedNote as an act of "protest against the ban," a publication of the Chinese Communist Party said.

The Supreme Court upheld the ruling that could ban TikTok on Sunday, but “TikTok refugees” across the country are already finding new platforms.

Chinese and American netizens are drawing closer despite the US bid to shield Americans from Chinese influence. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Chinese social apps Xiaohongshu and Lemon8 have soared to the top two spots on Apple's iPhone charts ahead of the U.S.'s impending TikTok ban.

Xiaohongshu, which has become the top downloaded free app on Apple’s App Store in the U.S., means “Little Red Book” in English. It combines e-commerce, short video and posting functions.

With ByteDance-owned TikTok facing imminent ban in the US this week, users in America are switching to another Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu or RedNote which has seen a surge in downloads over

Xiaohongshu, now known in English as RedNote, transformed overnight into a bridge between the realms of China's internet and America's, as a sudden wave of US users downloaded the app this week in anticipation of a national ban on TikTok.

“The ones benefiting from traffic from the TikTok ban are still Chinese apps,” GSR Ventures managing director Allen Zhu wrote on WeChat, posting a screenshot of the US App Store download chart. A stream of new English-language content and users showed up on Xiaohongshu this week, and the #tiktokrefugee hashtag garnered more than 25 million views.