Chinese social apps Momo, Tantan and DingTalk suspend user posts amid government crackdown
- Tantan is China’s biggest dating platform, with 90 million registered users and six million daily active users
Popular Chinese social apps Momo, Tantan and DingTalk have implemented a one-month ban on users posting social updates after they were ordered by authorities to clean up “illegal content” amid the government’s ongoing crackdown on cyberspace.
Momo, a Chinese hook-up app turned live-streaming video platform with over 113 million active users, said on Friday it would shut a social newsfeed section on its app for one month starting from May 11, in accordance with “directives of the relevant government authority”. It would also strengthen “content screening efforts” during the one-month suspension, according to the company.
Shares of Nasdaq-listed Momo plunged more than 10 per cent on Friday. A Momo spokeswoman declined to comment beyond what was said in the statement.
Momo-owned Tantan, a popular Tinder-like dating app in China, closed its social posting section on the same day to “implement content safety measures and create a healthy and positive social environment”, according to a notice on the Tantan app. A Tantan spokeswoman confirmed the month-long suspension.
Tantan was removed from major app stores in the country in late April for “self-inspection” of its content. The app is China’s biggest dating platform, with 90 million registered users and six million daily active users, according to Chinese tech news site 36kr.