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TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover
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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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41k new users in 4 days? Not too bad, but certainly not a mass exodus. Tiktok's user base is quite large, although I don't know the US specific user base size. It is a shame people don't choose better alternatives though.
875 million to over 950 million daily active users (DAU) globally as of Jan 2026.
TikTok was the better alternative. That's half the joke. As soon as it caught on, the plutocrats stepped in and seized control
Not unlike how Facebook bought out and gutted Instagram or JP Morgan took over Reddit and cleaned out all the lefties before taking it public.
That's before you get into the marketing budget that social media needs to build the kind of massive userbase you're asking for.