TikTok’s India rival booms with 500,000 users added every hour

In late June, when India banned 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok, which had 200 million local users. Within hours, an avalanche of new sign-ups pushed the servers of one of its Bangalore-based rivals, Roposo, to breaking point. Two weeks on, Roposo says it’s peaking at 500,000 new users an hour and expects to have 100 million by month’s end.