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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by londons_explore on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:36AM (#20084308)
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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by CharlesColeman on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:52AM (#20084534)
Though that seems to have been built on the back of a massively expensive advertising blitz:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-18/tiktok-br...:

> ...[Bytedance] is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to advertise on Facebook in the hope of luring away more users. Over the past three months, for instance, 13 percent of all the ads seen by users of Facebook’s Android app were for TikTok, says app-analytics firm Apptopia.

That's been their MO in China as well. IIRC, the mainland Chinese version, Douyin, was being heavily and repeatedly promoted with the Chinese equivalent of ads during the Superbowl.

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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by chillacy on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:16PM (#20084851)
Remember when Venmo
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