With TikTok's days in the U.S. potentially numbered, many American users are moving to another Chinese social media app: RedNote, a heavily censored platform similar to Instagram. Here's what to know.

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TikTok users in the United States are fleeing the platform for another Chinese-owned app called RedNote (Xiaoshongshu in China). More than 700,000 new users have flooded the app since TikTok appears to be shutting down in the United States.

RedNote, known as Xiaohongshu in China, is reaping the rewards of a potential TikTok ban in the US, with the competitor's users "migrating" over and encouraging others to follow suit. But why RedNote - and what is the app like?

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.

If that’s the funniest thing, the rise of RedNote isn’t far behind. As you probably already know, Congress passed a bill seeking to ban TikTok from the app store or force the company to sell to a U.S.

This influx coincides with a January 19 deadline for TikTok to either divest its U.S. operations or face removal from app stores.