‘Red Note’, a Chinese app, is dominating downloads, thanks to TikTok users


Xiaohongshu was the most downloaded free app in the US Apple store on Jan 14. More than 300 million people, mostly in China, use the app, where they share short videos as well as still, text-based posts. — AP

Manimatana Lee spent the past five years building one of the hottest commodities on the internet: a group of people who reliably watch her videos on TikTok.

She built an audience of nearly 10,000 followers with videos of herself vacuuming her house in Wisconsin while her youngest daughter napped in a carrier on her back. A video of Lee dancing and doing the dishes – while wearing her sleeping baby – has been watched more than 1 million times since November.

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