Triller takes top spot in App Store after Trump threatens to ban TikTok
TikTok's troubles are an opportunity for Triller.
On Sunday, Microsoft confirmed it's in talks to buy TikTok from Chinese parent company ByteDance. That came after President Donald Trump called for a ban on TikTok last week.
Now Triller, a video-sharing app that recently attracted some former TikTok influencers, has taken the top spot in the iOS App Store.
App analytics firm Apptopia crunched the numbers and found U.S. downloads of Triller went from 5,675 on July 26 to 61,924 on Aug. 2. That's an increase of nearly 11 times.
But don't move on too quickly. TikTok is still alive and well — it was downloaded 241,838 times on Sunday alone.
Coincdentially, Triller sued TikTok for patent infringement just last week.
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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
