Sensor Tower collects its ranking data from “publicly accessible estimates provided by the Apple App Store and Google Play [store].” While the firm doesn’t have direct insights into Apple’s and Google’s algorithms for determining rankings,

A rare wave of U.S.-China camaraderie broke out online in recent days as “refugees” from the popular short video platform TikTok poured onto a Chinese social media platform to protest a now-delayed ban on the service.

The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, also referred to as RedNote in English, has sprung to supremacy as the top free app on iPhone as the ban on TikTok took effect Sunday, drawing the ire of U.

On the heels of TikTok's looming shutdown on January 19 over its ownership in the U.S. (unless the Supreme Court intervenes), it looks like another American users are flocking to a Chinese app called Xiaohongshu as people become less optimistic that TikTok can overturn U.

Xiaohongshu’s biggest shareholders are in talks to sell shares in the Chinese Instagram-like service at a valuation of at least $20 billion, drawing interest from Tencent Holdings Ltd. and other big names as a potential TikTok US ban approaches.

With a TikTok ban set to go into effect in the U.S. on Sunday, social media users in the U.S. are migrating to Xiaohongshu, also known as ‘REDnote.’

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In the days leading up to a proposed US government ban on the social media platform TikTok, American users have turned to another Chinese-owned app, Xiaohongshu.

The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, which recently saw a rise in interest in the US amid legislation intended to ban TikTok, has adopted the

TikTok has resumed operations in the US following a shutdown overnight on Saturday, after the incoming US president Donald Trump pledged to “save TikTok” by delaying the proposed ban.

China tensions have precipitated a decade-long decline in bilateral people-to-people exchanges. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Ahead of a potential ban this Sunday, Xiaohongshu, which is also known as Red Note or Booktok, quickly became the most downloaded free app on the U.S. App Store on Tuesday, surpassing Lemon8, a social network app that is also owned by TikTok parent ByteDance.