{"id":143793,"date":"2025-01-13T21:28:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T21:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/chinese-social-media-app-rednote-tops-app-store-chart-ahead-of-tiktok-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T21:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T21:28:04","slug":"chinese-social-media-app-rednote-tops-app-store-chart-ahead-of-tiktok-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/chinese-social-media-app-rednote-tops-app-store-chart-ahead-of-tiktok-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese social media app RedNote tops App Store chart ahead of TikTok ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">RedNote, the Chinese social media app also known as Xiaohongshu, rose to the number one spot <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/charts\/iphone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the Apple App Store<\/a> as a US ban closes in on TikTok. The app offers a mix of pictures, short-form videos, and text posts across \u201cfollow,\u201d \u201cexplore,\u201d and \u201cnearby\u201d feeds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">A cursory scroll through RedNote\u2019s Explore page shows English-language posts scattered among those written in Chinese. Many American users call themselves \u201cTikTok refugees\u201d in videos, while others write in text posts that they\u2019re in search of a new community because of the potential TikTok ban. Some are even asking questions to Chinese users, such as \u201cWhat are some popular memes in China?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">RedNote, which launched in 2013 as a shopping-focused app, now has more than 300 million monthly active users and surpassed $1 billion in profit last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-12-12\/china-s-instagram-style-xiaohongshu-crosses-1-billion-in-profit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to <em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2025\/1\/10\/24340859\/supreme-court-tiktok-divest-ban-oral-arguments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Supreme Court heard oral arguments<\/a> over whether to uphold the law that will ban TikTok or force its China-based owner, ByteDance, to sell it to an American company. The Supreme Court has until January 19th to issue a decision. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2025\/1\/13\/24342986\/rednote-xiaohongshu-chinese-social-media-app-tiktok-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RedNote, the Chinese social media app also known as Xiaohongshu, rose to the number one spot on the Apple App Store as a US ban closes in on TikTok. The app offers a mix of pictures, short-form videos, and text posts across \u201cfollow,\u201d \u201cexplore,\u201d and \u201cnearby\u201d feeds. A cursory scroll through RedNote\u2019s Explore page shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}