Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700+ fraud cases since 2024
Taiwan's interior ministry said on Thursday it would suspend access to Instagram-like Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu for one year …
Document: Xiaohongshu, a TikTok alternative known in the US as Rednote, has surged to a $26B valuation based on recent market transactions via a GSR fund
Echo Wong / Bloomberg :
Alibaba partners with RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu, to allow users on RedNote to directly click on product links to shop on Alibaba's Taobao platform
A profile of Charlwin Mao, founder of Xiaohongshu or “Little Red Book”, who claims the name references the color of his university Stanford and ex-employer Bain
Mao? [embedded post] Casey Newton / @caseynewton : So the app we've been calling RedNote is actually ... Charlwin Mao's Little Red Book??? Someone please reboot the simulation [embedded post] Mastodo...
Congressional leaders seem flummoxed by the growing popularity of Chinese-owned apps Xiaohongshu and Lemon8, an unintended consequence of the TikTok ban
The Chinese apps RedNote and Lemon8 have exploded in popularity as TikTok faces an imminent ban and the Supreme Court upheld the law forcing its sale. Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com , @pharmesq , @romit...
Sources: the biggest shareholders of viral app Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, are in talks to sell part of their holdings at a valuation of at least $20B
Bloomberg :
Sources: RedNote staff is scrambling to hide US users' posts from Chinese users after China raised concerns about politically sensitive English-language posts
But Will It Last? Makena Kelly / Wired : TikTok Hadn't Even Been Banned Before the Backlash Started Yaling Jiang / Time : The Lure of Chinese App Red Note Taylor Lorenz / User Mag : The RedNote honeym...
Source: over 700K new users joined Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, in just two days; Sensor Tower: the app's US downloads were up more than 200% YoY this week
New users have piled in to Chinese social media app RedNote just days before a proposed U.S. ban on the popular social media app TikTok …
Ahead of a likely US TikTok ban, users flee to Chinese apps Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, and ByteDance's Lemon8, currently the top two apps in the US App Store
and how to prepare Koh Ewe / BBC : TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote as US ban looms New York Times : ‘Red Note,’ a Chinese App, Is Dominating Downloads, Thanks to TikTok Users Emily Hallas / ...