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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 short-form video platform’s daily average app uninstalls in the U.S. have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence firm Sensor Tower told CNBC.

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[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Wow. That is a giant number. The change made was not good.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

If previously there we 1'000 uninstalls per day, not there are 1'500. Relative numbers like that are useless.

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

If they're "up 150%" then it's now 2500.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Correct, but I did not specify the % so I am save :3

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[-] evol@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

Everyone will probs be back in a few days anyway

[-] allriledup@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

wait, so chinese spying is fine, but american spying is not? So why are so many people on faecesbook then?

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[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I remember when tiktok was getting blocked. People got pretty riled up that they didn't have access to their propaganda app anymore.

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 months ago

i deleted Tiktok years ago
thank god people are deleting it (cause i remember it being Toxic and stuff)

[-] eugenia@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Guess what, I never created an account. I just can't get into that quick content, I find it boring after 5 minutes, without substance. I tried both youtube shorts and instagram reels, boring! I prefer long talks or analysis on youtube.

[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Ok, but what are the counts for uninstalls generally? 150% sounds like a lot, but if it’s only a thousand uninstalls a week then it’s only jumped to 1,500 uninstalls. When there are millions of users, that’s…not very much.

I’m not arguing against progress. I’m just saying they are making it sound like this big exodus when it might be minimal in reality.

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