By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Users of the Chinese social media app RedNote welcomed "TikTok refugees" from the United States with selfies and messages on Wednesday, as Beijing said it encouraged stronger cultural ties with other countries in response to the sudden influx.

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our revamped daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world. Today, Gao Yuan recounts the rise of Xiaohongshu,

With a TikTok ban set to go into effect in the U.S. on Sunday, social media users in the U.S. are migrating to Xiaohongshu, also known as ‘REDnote.’

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese social media app RedNote has been thrust into the limelight after more than half a million TikTok users recently joined the platform in protest against a likely imminent ban on the short video app in the United States.

TikTok users fleeing the ByteDance-owned social platform ahead of a crucial Supreme Court decision on its future sent a rival Chinese app to the top of Apple's charts in the US on Monday. While the exact number of downloads is unknown,

Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, has attracted a flurry of self-styled "TikTok refugees" who looking for an alternative but are refusing to join Meta. View on euronews

As we wait until January 19 for the Supreme Court to decide whether or not to ban TikTok, Americans are already preparing for the worst-case scenario by joining an alternative app. Xiaohongshu (translated means "little red book"),

STORY: Chinese app Xiaohongshu – or RedNote in the West – saw a spike of new users from the U.S., just days before a proposed ban on social media TikTok.In fact – it topped free download rankings on Apple's U.