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Twitter may purchase TikTok after expressing interest in the app, according to reports.
TikTok is already in talks with Microsoft about a merger imaginable.
The acquisition is an attempt to prevent you from banning the application completely because of its ties to China.
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Twitter had in the past purchased a similar app, Vine, which also allowed users to create short video clips that fit the rest of the Internet. Vine closed after your purchase.
Rumors of a new acquisition come after U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to ban TikTok for security reasons, unless purchased from its Chinese owners.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, Twitter also has a lead for the platform.
He said corporations had had initial talks about an imaginable merger, but it was unclear whether the agreement would continue.
A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on the issue.
Last week, Trump announced that the TikTok ban in the United States would be taken on September 15 unless Microsoft or “someone else” bought it.
This followed Microsoft’s confirmation that it was in talks with TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, about a possible acquisition of its U.S. operations. After a verbal exchange between Microsoft boss Satya Nadella and Trump.
The United States has expressed fear that programs such as TikTok have links to the Chinese Communist Party and that user knowledge collected through the platforms would be available through the Chinese state.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described “Chinese software vendors doing business in the United States,” such as TikTok and WeChat, as “providing knowledge directly” to the Chinese government.
TikTok has denied the allegations and insists that Beijing has no access to non-public knowledge and has no ties to the Communist Party.
Following Trump’s announcement last week, the company said she was “shocked” by the decision.
“We have made clear that TikTok has never shared user data with the Chinese Government, nor censored content at its request,” the app said in a statement.
TikTok also said it was “assessing the possibility” of building its outdoor headquarters in the US, following last week’s reports that it was seeing the UK as an imagineable location for the site.
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