President Donald Trump joined Triller, an opponent of the TikTok video sharing app that wants ban in the United States. Trump's Triller account (@donaldjtrump), first reported by New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz, has some 3,550 followers and more than 590,000 views in his introductory video.
The introductory video includes the President's videos and the president's audio clips, stating that 'I am a technology professional,' "nobody can just do it like me," while the other two videos on the accounts were a short address by the President, who said "Joe Biden doesn't have any clue.
Due to the ongoing trump administration 's push against TikTok over the last few weeks, Triller has been one of several similar user apps with over 700,000 user downloads over the past month. TikTok said it had downloaded 2 billion worldwide in April and had downloaded alone 315 million in the first quarter of 2020.
Two years before Tik Tok launched in 2015, Triller, the co-owner of the company, Ryan Kavanaugh, told CNBC, the company sees itself as the TikTok "adult" version with "a bit more risk" content.
On Friday President Trump issued a management order to either sell or spin off their TikTok company in the U.S. for ByteDance for 90 days.
ByteDance, TikTok's parent company based in China, has proposed the Trump administration to share information on Americans with the Chinese government that the company refused to provide. At the beginning of this month the President issued an executive order to address the national emergency in the information and communication technology chain, which would have blocked all US transactions with BYteDance.
Microsoft was discussing the acquisition of TikTok, which was cofounded with Bill Gates and called Twitter a "poisoned chalice" last week. Microsoft said it expected "not later than September 15, 2020," to conclude the discussions.
