{"id":19104,"date":"2018-10-19T16:22:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19104"},"modified":"2018-10-19T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:22:17","slug":"the-chinese-app-taking-the-social-media-world-by-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19104","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese app taking the social media world by storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN Business)<\/cite>Chinese social media apps have struggled to win over users beyond their home turf. TikTok is changing that. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In the space of just two years, the app has amassed<strong> <\/strong>more than half a billion users \u2014 around 40% of them outside China \u2014 who share short videos of themselves lip-syncing, cooking, dancing or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=njunDO_RACs\" target=\"_blank\">just being silly<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Created by Beijing-based startup Bytedance, TikTok has gained an international edge over China&#8217;s established social media platforms, such as Tencent&#8217;s (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=TCEHY\">TCEHY<\/a>) WeChat, Sina Weibo (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=WB\">WB<\/a>) and Alibaba&#8217;s (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=BABA\">BABA<\/a>) Youku.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN Business)Chinese social media apps have struggled to win over users beyond their home turf. TikTok is changing that. In the space of just two years, the app has amassed more than half a billion users \u2014 around 40% of them outside China \u2014 who share short videos of themselves lip-syncing, cooking, dancing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}