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Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote (techcrunch.com)

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[–] thelucky8 5 points 1 day ago

The most important thing in Duolingo's chart on social media is the fact that they didn't show the unit. How much are these 216% in absolute numbers? (If there are 100 learners, you can easily increase that by 200%, but the total number remains still meaningless.)

With better numbers, this article is useless, except maybe for Chinese propaganda.