TikTok and Twitter are starting to talk about a possible combination, WSJ reports

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• Amid President Donald Trump's threats to ban TikTok, or force it to sell its US operations, Twitter was reported to be in talks with the video-sharing app Saturday night.
• The Wall Street Journal reported that a potential deal, if it materializes, could involve TikTok's US operations.
• Both Twitter and TikTok declined to comment on the report to Business Insider.
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Another tech giant was reported to be on TikTok's dance card Saturday night — Twitter.

The Wall Street Journal's Georgia Wells and Cara Lombardo reported the two popular apps are in "preliminary" talks for a possible combination. "People familiar with the matter" told the paper that a deal, which it said Twitter may not end up pursuing, would involve TikTok's US operations.

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