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chvid on July 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeov...

If you look at the graphs in this article on the use and explosive popularity of TikTok you can see that TiKTok currently dwarfs all other social media in the US market wrt. downloads, time spent in app pr user, user growth.

https://www.ft.com/content/c6a8b9bc-dd6d-46a7-b008-825568982...

TikTok’s rampant growth strikes wrong note with US

nomel on July 29, 2020 [–]

Or, if they allegations are true, you could look at this as "rampant growth in data harvesting".

star-trek-fleet on July 29, 2020 | [–]

That's definitely true.

Chinese corps generally have a much lower standards on privacy. Because they were subject to lower standards when they started in domestic China.

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