A man stands near a giant sign of ByteDance’s app Douyin during China Fashion Week in Beijing on March 31. Photo: Reuters
A man stands near a giant sign of ByteDance’s app Douyin during China Fashion Week in Beijing on March 31. Photo: Reuters
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TikTok’s Chinese version gets WeChat-style friend-finding function in social networking push, challenging Tencent

  • ByteDance’s Douyin now lets users shake their phones to find users nearby, a feature that helped rival Tencent grow WeChat into China’s most-used super app
  • The Beijing-based company has been looking for ways to expand the domestic version of TikTok beyond short videos to become a social and lifestyle platform

A man stands near a giant sign of ByteDance’s app Douyin during China Fashion Week in Beijing on March 31. Photo: Reuters
A man stands near a giant sign of ByteDance’s app Douyin during China Fashion Week in Beijing on March 31. Photo: Reuters
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