President Donald Trump on Thursday extended a deadline for Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell TikTok. The deadline for that to happen was supposed to be Thursday.

The president, who has 15 million followers since joining TikTok last year, credits the platform for helping him gain traction with young voters.

The US president ‘does not want TikTok to go dark’, the White House says, as Trump prepares to put off a threatened ban for the third time.