推特入局TikTok争夺战?

Twitter to buy TikTok app?

推特入局TikTok争夺战？

Now Twitter has reportedly joined Microsoft in an effort - albeit a longshot one - to acquire another social media giant, TikTok.

有媒体报道称，继微软之后，推特也在试图收购另一家社交媒体巨头TikTok，虽然这并不容易。

Twitter is in talks to buy the wildly popular video-sharing app that US President Donald Trump has ordered to be sold because of its Chinese ownership, The Wall Street Journal reported.

据《华尔街日报》报道，推特正在谈判收购这家备受欢迎的视频分享应用程序，美国总统特朗普因其中国所有权而下令出售。

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has claimed that TikTok could send user data on its mostly young American user base to China's government, an allegation that TikTok has strenuously denied.

美国国务卿蓬佩奥声称，TikTok可能会向中国政府提供大部分美国年轻用户群的用户数据。对于蓬佩奥的指控，TikTok坚决否认。

TikTok plans to sue the Trump administration, challenging the president's executive order banning the service, according to a report by National Public Radio.

据美国国家公共广播电台报道，TikTok计划起诉特朗普政府，状告总统发布行政命令禁止TikTok运营。

It isn't clear what TikTok's US operations are worth, but estimates run into the tens of billions of dollars.

目前尚不清楚TikTok在美业务价值有多少，但据估计高达数百亿美元。

That has raised questions over how Twitter would finance such a deal - Twitter's market capitalization is about $29 billion, while Microsoft's exceeds $1.6 trillion.

这引发了人们对推特将如何为这笔交易融资的质疑——推特的市值约为290亿美元，而微软的市值超过1.6万亿美元。