TikTok offers to pay its users to shop if they boost app downloads

TikTok is offering users hundreds of dollars to spend time in the app, invite friends to join and purchase products on TikTok Shop, in an effort to expand the business as quickly as possible ahead of its possible ban in the US.

TikTok users recently began seeing a new “limited time offer,” which compensates them in the form of TikTok Shop credits. The promotions are appearing on TikTokers’ “For You” page, the main feed they see when they open the app. On Friday, a major court ruling upheld a law that could ban TikTok nationwide as soon as January.