In the past, the App Store is now ranked number one by the Xiaohongshu app.

This is the Chinese analogue of TikTok, which Americans have begun to switch to amid a possible ban on TikTok in the United States. Some great bloggers have already moved to Xiaohunshu.

In China, Xiaohongshu is positioned more as an analogue of Instagram*. The apps have 300 million monthly active users, of which 79% are women.

Interestingly, the second place in the App Store is now occupied by the Chinese social network Lemon8, based on ByteDance.

The surge in popularity of Chinese apps is also associated with the reluctance of Americans to switch from TikTok to Instagram*, although Xiaohongshu doesn’t even have a Russian-language name.

*belongs to Meta, recognized as extremist and banned in Russia

Xiaohongshu, China’s answer to Instagram, tops App Store as TikTok faces shutdown in US | TechCrunch

In the wake of TikTok’s impending shutdown on January 19 due to its US ownership (barring the Supreme Court’s intervention), it appears other US users are flocking to a Chinese app called Xiaohongshu as people lose optimism that TikTok could lift the ban in USA. .

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Source: Iphones RU

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