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.

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 daily average of U.S. users deleting the TikTok app has increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence firm Sensor Tower told CNBC.

Some users took to social media to voice their skepticism about the new joint venture after being prompted to agree to an updated privacy policy on Thursday.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    20 hours ago

    Really? So there are databases of these numbers for all companies? Or is this unique to TikTok?

    • green_red_black@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      19 hours ago

      All the companies I would imagine. And it’s not information hard to record. After all it’s just Tiktok looking at how many accounts they have and then saying how many deleted

      • krashmo@lemmy.world
        21·
        17 hours ago

        But deleting your account is not the same as deleting the app. You can do either without the other