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The Terrifying Red Fruit and ByteDance’s Time in China’s Internet

The battle between ByteDance and Tencent for dominance of the internet is reaching a turning point. Douyin has overtaken WeChat for the first time to become the platform with the highest usage time among Chinese users APP, with ByteDance-affiliated apps’ total share of usage time reaching 40.9%, while Tencent-affiliated apps fell back to 29.1%. Hongguo’s free short dramas surpassed 168000000 per day per person, exceeding the combined total of the four major long-form video platforms. This shift in content power from social networking to algorithms reveals a new order in the attention economy.

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