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Trump’s official campaign app had to reset its rating after being trolled by TikTokers

Trump’s official campaign app had to reset its rating after being trolled by TikTokers

3 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/21/trumps-official-campaign-app-had-to-reset-its-rating-after-being-trolled-by-tiktokers/

An effort by TikTok users to troll President Trump’s official campaign app with thousands of 1-star reviews appears to have had an impact — if not the impact the pranksters had wanted. In July, Bloomberg reported TikTok activists were flocking to the Official Trump 2020 app on the U.S. App Store to fill it with negative reviews. The prank’s goal was to get the app removed from the App Store by lowering its star rating. The plan was misguided, however, as it’s a common misconception that an app will be pulled from the App Store for having bad reviews. But the trolling has now led the Trump campaign to reset the app’s rating using the infrequently-used “reset rating” feature Apple offers app developers.

The prank against the app had begun in retaliation to the Trump Administration’s threat to ban TikTok from the U.S. market. Bloomberg reported a TikTok user, Juan Booker, posted a video for his 750,000 followers asking them to go leave 1-star ratings on the Trump app to get it booted from the App Store. That post, and then many others like it, began to circulate on TikTok.