{"id":895729,"date":"2025-01-15T07:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T02:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=895729"},"modified":"2025-01-15T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T02:30:28","slug":"users-flock-to-chinese-apps-like-xiaohongshu-amid-tiktok-ban-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/15\/users-flock-to-chinese-apps-like-xiaohongshu-amid-tiktok-ban-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Users flock to Chinese apps like Xiaohongshu amid TikTok ban risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of Chinese-made social apps, Xiaohongshu and Lemon8, have taken over the top two positions on Apple Inc.\u2019s iPhone download charts in the US as users seek out alternatives to TikTok ahead of an imminent ban.<\/p>\n<p>Xiaohongshu \u2014 China\u2019s closest analog to Instagram \u2014 became the most downloaded free app on iOS and rose to the top 10 on Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google Play store for the first time. Many new users labeled themselves \u201cTikTok refugees\u201d as they joined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of Chinese-made social apps, Xiaohongshu and Lemon8, have taken over the top two positions on Apple Inc.\u2019s iPhone download charts in the US as users seek out alternatives to TikTok ahead of an imminent ban. Xiaohongshu \u2014 China\u2019s closest analog to Instagram \u2014 became the most downloaded free app on iOS and rose to the top 10 on Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google Play store for the first time. Many new users labeled themselves \u201cTikTok refugees\u201d as they joined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}