Competitors are already taking advantage of TikTok’s impending shutdown to entice its users and creators to switch platforms, the app’s lawyers say. Trump-approved Triller is reportedly dangling equity and official company positions for TikTok stars to tell followers they are switching platforms. — SCMP
In early August, after US President Donald Trump first threatened to put Chinese-owned short video giant TikTok “out of business”, smaller American rival Triller shot to the top of data provider Sensor Tower’s charts for free iPhone apps in the US.
Singapore-based Likee, another similar app, climbed to eighth place among free iPhone apps in photo and video category in the same month, before falling back to 37th place this week.
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