Duolingo shares climbed 10% this week as Americans turn to Chinese-language social media app RedNote and rush to learn Mandarin ahead of TikTok's ban slated for Sunday.

Popular language learning platform Duolingo Inc. (NASDAQ: DUOL) has been a key benefactor just from the threat of a TikTok ban. American Users Desperately Trying to Learn Mandarin to Use RedNote ...

In the meantime, TikTok users have started migrating to Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, a Chinese social media app that is similar to TikTok. RedNote was the No. 1 free app being downloaded in ...

Despite the sudden surge in popularity, RedNote is not a 1:1 alternative for TikTok. Still, it does a great job of filling a similar niche to what TikTok users look for in a social media app.

Shanghai-based Xiaohongshu, or RedNote as it is known in English, is a Chinese social media platform growing in popularity as an alternative to TikTok, but with the same security risks.

On Jan. 13, over 50,000 U.S. and Chinese users joined a RedNote live chat, dubbed “TikTok Refugees,” where longtime fans of the app in China welcomed their incoming counterparts.

Duolingo has seen a 216 percent increase in Chinese lessons. Rednote has also introduced in the past week a button to translate comments into English and other languages.

Mao would have loved RedNote, and TikTok, to be fair. It’s safe to say that RedNote’s name is more than a wink and a nod to the dictator, the personage of state power manifest.

On Jan. 13, over 50,000 U.S. and Chinese users joined a RedNote live chat, dubbed “TikTok Refugees,” where longtime fans of the app in China welcomed their incoming counterparts.