Shou Zi Chew was an intern at Facebook before he became Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest competitor as CEO of TikTok. Shou Zi Chew may be the CEO of Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest competitor, TikTok, but at the start of his career,
TikTok might be gone — but its effects have changed us forever. Whatever happens to the app, the TikTokification of American life is here to stay.
Meta stands to be one of the largest beneficiaries of a TikTok ban in the US, analysts say. Through ad dollars alone, Meta could rake in up to $3.38B.
Meanwhile, Snap is poised to capitalize, while other popular Chinese apps like RedNote may be newly scrutinized.
TikTok is owned by Chinese parent company ByteDance. If ByteDance doesn’t sell to an American business by Sunday, Jan. 19, it will be illegal for U.S. internet hosting services and app stores to distribute the TikTok app.
I immediately thought of Vine this morning, when the Supreme Court upheld a law that requires TikTok to be sold by its Chinese parent company or face a ban in the United States. After I saw the news I then checked TikTok.
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday, Jan. 17, to uphold a law that would ban the app for the 170 million people who use the app in the U.S. The ruling lines up with decisions other courts have made and sets up the ban to go into effect on Sunday, Jan. 19.
Texas TikTok creators Bar 7 Ranch wants to see app stay after the platform grew farming business and following.
As TikTok’s days appear to dwindle in the United States, a chunk of the platform’s audience is flocking to the Chinese social media app, Xiaohongshu, known in English as RedNote. The migration has pushed the platform to the top of U.S. app download charts.
Whether you’re a casual user or a dedicated creator, the possibility of TikTok shutting down in the U.S. raises the question: what’s next?
Some U.S. TikTok users may cling to the slim hope that the app can live on in one form or another in the aftermath of a unanimous Supreme Court decision upholding the law resultin