Tiktok Return Crushes Chinese competitors like Xiaohongshu on Apple and Google Play Store

Tiktok was banned in January, after which some Chinese apps saw a rapid increase in downloads. After the ticket was banned, users started shifting to other apps. But the situation vomited after President Donald Trump removed the ban from the app. Apps whose downloads were accelerated, after Tiktok returned to America, their users started leaving the app fast. Among the affected apps are Xiaohongshu which was rapidly downloaded in the US. But now it is turning upside down. The users of the app started decreasing rapidly.

After lifting the ban in the US on Tiktok, it was made available back to the App Store and Google Play Store. After which the users who shifted to other similar apps started running once again towards the ticket. In such a situation, the new downloads of the Xiaohongshu app began to decrease rapidly. Xiaohongshu is also known as ‘Little Red Book’. Report According to, after the ticket was banned, this app reached the top in the Apple App Store Chart. Its new users increased rapidly.

Xiaohongshu offers the best content on travel, fashion, beauty and lifestyle. It was already 300 million users in China during the ban on tickets. Despite this, the app users increased rapidly in America. But as soon as Tiktok returned to the App Store and Google Play Store in America, Xiaohongshu’s downloads declined by 91%.

TWhy was Iktok banned?
In fact, like India, the US government was also considering Tiktok as a threat to its national security. According to reports, the US had given two paths to Bitdans, a parent company of tickets. The first is that he sells his business to someone else in America. Secondly, by 19 January 2025, the company should stop its functioning in the US. The app was removed from the app stores in the US, a day before 19 January. In such a situation, users started running towards other apps. But later in the US, the newly elected President Donald Trump removed the ban, giving relief to bytedance.