Duolingo shares have jumped this week, as the number of Americans learning Mandarin on the app has soared 216%. That's as China's RedNote is now the most downloaded free app on Apple's App Store ahead of the TikTok ban.

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When TikTok went off the air (to use a very old-fashioned phrase), there was a scramble to find an alternative to its shortform video feed — and a similar scramble by various social networks to provide that alternative. (In fact, while I was writing this, Tumblr launched its new Tumblr TV feature.) The question is: how successful are they?

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Americans have turned to the language-learning app Duolingo to study Mandarin and the Chinese social app RedNote as a potential alternative to TikTok, which recently faced a temporary ban in the U.S.

Popular TikTok accounts such as DuoLingo shared trade secrets before the app went dark in the US, while creators confessed to long-running inside jokes.

TikTok creators posted tearful farewells and encouraged followers to find them on other less lucrative platforms on Jan. 18, 2025, the day the popular social

@duolingo hope we don’t regret posting this on Monday! #duolingo #tiktokban ♬ original sound - TikTok’s Sportscaster Duolingo is no stranger to fun in their marketing. They've shared many videos that have left a lasting impression on viewers.

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at the impacts of the looming TikTok ban in the U.S., including the “TikTok refugees” moving to

That One Sound is a column from internet culture reporter Charlotte Colombo that explores the origin of popular sounds heard on TikTok. On Jan. 17, the Supreme Court ruled that banning TikTok is not a violation of users’ First Amendment rights. This paved the way for that much-dreaded ban to come into effect from Jan. 19.

When refugees from the app showed up on an alternative called RedNote, understanding was fostered.

A roundup of the most shocking confessions that influencers like Charli D'Amelio, Meredith Duxbury, and Hayley Kalil made before TikTok's ban on Jan. 19.