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.

    • red_green_black@slrpnk.net
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      2 months ago

      I think Tik Tok is required to record those numbers and share them with shareholders as such data would tell one they are worth investing or not.

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        2 months ago

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

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          2 months 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

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            2 months ago

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