TikTok的美国用户们正在准备迎接没有这款视频应用的生活

Ty Gibson来自北卡罗来纳州格林斯博，TikTok是他最喜欢的视频分享平台，然而最近的消息让他担忧他可能不得不永远告别这款应用。上周四，TikTok服务器上的一个故障抹去了视频浏览量——这是衡量视频受欢迎程度的一个指标，用户们惊慌失措。紧接着，美国议员对TikTok处理用户数据的做法提出了国家安全方面的担忧，并表示担心它将被要求与中国政府分享数据。美国国务卿迈克·蓬佩奥威胁要封杀TikTok等中资应用。Ty Gibson的担忧似乎成真了，他看着其他用户在TikTok上泛滥成灾的告别视频。“我认为这就是结束了，我甚至没有时间去考虑其他事情。”Gibson在接受路透社采访时说。他为自己的460万粉丝录制了告别视频，请他的粉丝们到YouTube和Facebook的Instagram上继续关注他。

虽然TikTok在美国的命运尚未确定，但它可能被禁止的消息还是在其忠实用户群中掀起了一阵担忧，他们纷纷开始思考备用计划。电子竞技明星泰勒-布莱文斯（Tyler Blevins，更广为人知的是Ninja）在TikTok上拥有400万粉丝。然而最近，他在Twitter上告诉他的粉丝们，他已经从手机上删除了TikTok。忠实的粉丝们现在正坐立不安。他们用#TikTokBan这样的标签分享自己哭泣(和跳舞)的视频，#TikTokBan拥有2.12亿次浏览量，#SaveTikTok拥有3.15亿次浏览量。美国影响者委员会（American Influencer Council）副主任亚历山大-帕蒂诺（Alexander Patino）说：“如果TikTok失去了消费者的信任，那么他们就失去了与消费者之间的联系。”智库大西洋理事会（Atlantic Council）的非驻地研究员贾斯汀-谢尔曼（Justin Sherman）表示，虽然TikTok确实存在安全问题，但特朗普政府的动机主要是政治性的，这不仅让人难以预测政府会做出什么决定，而且如果政府继续实施禁令，TikTok几乎不可能进行反击。贾斯汀-谢尔曼表示，他不认为公司可以做任何事情来安抚美国的用户。

Ty Gibson, 20, of Greensboro, North Carolina, brushed off speculation last week on TikTok that his favorite video sharing platform was going to be banned. By Thursday, users panicked after a glitch on the service erased video views, a measure of video popularity. Suddenly, news reports of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s threats to block Chinese-owned apps like TikTok hit home as he watched other users flood the app with goodbyes. U.S. lawmakers have raised national security concerns over TikTok’s handling of user data, and said they were worried it would be required to share data with the Chinese government. “I thought it was the end,” Gibson said in an interview. “I didn’t even have time to think things through.” Gibson recorded his own farewell video for his 4.6 million fans, asking them to follow him on YouTube and Facebook’s Instagram.

While TikTok’s fate in the United States is undecided, the news set off a wave of worries among its devoted user base, who are coming up with backup plans on other services. Some, like e-sports star Tyler Blevins, known more widely as Ninja, who has 4 million followers on TikTok, told his 6 million followers on Twitter that he already deleted TikTok from his phone. Loyalists are sitting tight for now. But they are distraught - sharing videos of themselves crying (and dancing) with hashtags like #TikTokBan which has 212 million views and #SaveTikTok, with 315 million views on the app. “If TikTok loses consumer trust, then they lose their relevance,” said Alexander Patino, deputy director of the American Influencer Council, a trade association for social media personalities who market products online. While there are real security questions about TikTok, the Trump administration’s motives are primarily political, which make it not only difficult to predict what the government will decide, but nearly impossible to fight back if it proceeds with a ban, said Justin Sherman, a nonresident fellow at think tank Atlantic Council, who focuses on geopolitics and cybersecurity. “I don’t think the company could do anything to placate them,” he said.  source

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