TikTok returned on Sunday for American users after going dark on Saturday night. President-elect Donald Trump says he intends to "save" the platform.
Social media users are speculating that Meta has bought TikTok, following Donald Trump's announcement that he planned to delay a ban on the app.
Amid uncertainties surrounding TikTok's future, Reddit and Snap have initiated a strategy to attract advertisers by offering discounts to those who increase their ad spend on these platforms.
With a possible ban looming for the popular short-form video app, these stocks are set to gain as companies look to capture TikTok users' screen time.
All these comments from so-called TikTok 'refugees' showed up on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's most recent Instagram post, which was posted shortly after TikTok went dark for American users on Saturday night. The video of a surfing Zuckerberg, which was initially filled with Instagram users lauding his skills, was quickly overrun with angry users.
TikTok users are mobilizing to block the Facebook account on the app after rumors circulated that Meta purchased the company. Some TikTokers claimed that doing so reset their For You Page after the feed allegedly changed when the platform came back online in the U.S. following a brief shutdown period.
In the "TikTokCringe" subreddit, a video from a RedNote user with red eyes, presumably swollen from tears, suggested that Americans had possibly ruined the app for Chinese Americans who rely on RedNote to stay current on Chinese news and culture.
Questions loom over TikTok's future after a U.S. ban went into effect Saturday. Do workarounds like VPNs work? Will it come back? What we know so far.
The brand is also focusing on product R&D as a big business driver.
The Chinese social media app, popular in the United States a week after being flooded by TikTok users, has added language translation features.
After briefly ‘going dark’, TikTok has returned to the screens of users in the US. But the situation remains slippery.