this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
1277 points (99.6% liked)

Technology

79355 readers
4200 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
1277
TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
165 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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 short-form video platform’s daily average app uninstalls in the U.S. have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence firm Sensor Tower told CNBC.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 25 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, but what are the counts for uninstalls generally? 150% sounds like a lot, but if it’s only a thousand uninstalls a week then it’s only jumped to 1,500 uninstalls. When there are millions of users, that’s…not very much.

I’m not arguing against progress. I’m just saying they are making it sound like this big exodus when it might be minimal in reality.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

If they're up 150% and it was 1000 before, it'd now be 2500. Your point still stands, of course.

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Yes, you’re correct. Math is difficult and I forgot to add the 100% on top of the original number. Thank you!