TikTok Refugees Fleeing to RedNote
As TikTok will be banned on January 19th, many users are fleeing to other platforms. Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu is among the destinations. It is said that more than 700,000 new users joined Xiaohongshu in 2 days, according to Reuters . Photo by Declan Sun on Unsplash Xiaohongshu was founded in 2013, and most of the users were females in the first several years. The meaning of the app's name is Red Note. It was regarded as the Chinese version of Instagram, which also focuses on photo sharing. Now many male users are participating in the creation of content in all formats, texts, photos, live photos, videos in different lengths and live-streaming. I think it is more like Twitter, on which users could post content in all formats. The difference is that RedNote will transform your text post into a photo card, when you post text without a photo or video, while Twitter was designed to post text initially. Additionally, Twitter features a translation function that enab...