ByteDance, the world’s most-valued startup, just launched a new social media product under its Douyin brand in what many people see as a serious attempt to challenge WeChat. Tencent has long dominated

TikTok is giving China a video chat alternative to WeChat

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“Unlike TikTok, which incentivizes users to follow celebrities and strangers, Duoshan is built for private messaging.”

Nikolas Kong

If you read the article, this app is not about video calling at all, it’s video messaging

Matthieu

Thank god! Hate wechat video and audio calls

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