TikTok users are deleting the app, with removals up 150% following U.S. joint venture
TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture.
The daily average of U.S. users deleting the TikTok app has increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence firm Sensor Tower told CNBC.
Some users took to social media to voice their skepticism about the new joint venture after being prompted to agree to an updated privacy policy on Thursday.
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Where do they get the publicly available account deletion stats?
Really? So there are databases of these numbers for all companies? Or is this unique to TikTok?
But deleting your account is not the same as deleting the app. You can do either without the other
The article is about users deleting the app. You said they could tell who did that by counting how many accounts were deleted. You can't because those are different things
Probably App Store metrics too. But I’m not sure how public those are, though I guarantee it’s tracked by Apple and Google to be shared with (at minimum) the app developer.
Ahh that makes sense.
This is a good question
Sensor Tower gives pretty good app analytics.
I’ll just leave this here lol
Heh. Thanks for that! Very good read! Opened my eyes a bit!
Yup my a lot of my non-nerd/techy friends are finally starting to do it with tiktok and on top of that they are starting to care a sliver more about their privacy.
The distrust of tiktok, meta, and google is growing. There is hope.
Lie machine needs to die .
Let it die.
why have it if they do censorship, you can't even talk about the Epstein list anymore.
UpScrolled looks like a promising alternative.
Another proprietary, singularly-owned platform vulnerable to hostile takeovers by wealthy propagandists?
I really hope Dansup is still putting in some work on Loops. This would really be a great time.
As a loops user, I find it a decent alternative to TicToc. It just doesn't have that much content on it as compared to TicToc.
It's also lacking in a lot of features used heavily on TT, such as a library of popular music to use without risk of copyright infringement. TT and YT have the resources to license that material, but that kind of feature will likely never make it to a fedi platform. Dansup really needs to figure this out, as it's a bit of a "killer feature" that Loops is missing and has no solution for.
We already have an alternative, and its on the fediverse. Its called loops and it doesn't include proprietary garbage.
That was predictable.
China doesn’t care, it’s done its job and then some.
If Trump stepped in to save Tik Tok then you know he's making money off of some sort of nefarious bullshit.
They're and were collecting info on gender, race and religion. Lots of info for Trump and his Maga buddies.
Why aren't people leaving X too? Also meta socials too?
Good start
People were happy to use the Pet Cemetery version of Tiktok since Elon took office last January… Better late than never I guess.
The tiktok algorithm is what made it valuable, as well as a search function that beats Google in finding and presenting relevant results. I hope upcoming competitors can match it