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TikTok usage is starting to slow — is TikTok Shop to blame?


TikTok may have been the world's top app by downloads and consumer spending in 2023, but it was not the top by actual usage. Last year, Facebook again

Elsewhere on the web, Redditors have been debating whether TikTok Shop has “ruined” the app, which is now filled with “people dropshipping/selling cheap products,” as one Reddit user put it. “Personally, I’m starting to get really annoyed by how almost every other video on my [For You Page] is someone overhyping a product from the Shop feature to try to get it to go viral and make a lot of commissions,” wrote Redditor u/megg-salad-sammich in September. Sensor Tower found that Instagram’s monthly active user growth has been relatively consistent at “mid-single digits,” and hasn’t been significantly impacted negatively or positively since the launch of the TikTok Shop Seller app.

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