TikTok is a very comprehensive app where users can do almost everything: from uploading videos (both short and long) to sharing their most spectacular photos. But, for some time now, many users have missed a specific feature that is available on other social media platforms: writing texts.
Now, TikTok has decided to catch up and further diversify the content users can share by allowing them to post text-based updates in a manner very similar to Stories, a feature popularized by Snapchat and Instagram.
As TikTok explains in their blog, with this new type of post, users will also be able to customize and embellish the text they share, adding music tracks, stickers, changing the background color, tagging a location, enabling comments, and allowing duets from other users (Duet function), among other possibilities.
Users can now express themselves freely as text-based posts have a character limit of 1,000. The new feature is already available to all TikTok users worldwide who have the latest version of the app.
Text-based posts come just a few weeks after TikTok started testing a new music streaming platform called TikTok Music. Currently, this platform is only available in five countries, but it is expected to expand to more regions in the coming months.
Indeed, TikTok’s new text-based feature comes at a time when Twitter, now called X, is facing challenges and new apps are emerging to compete with Elon Musk‘s company. Among these alternatives are Mastodon, which was one of the first major alternatives to Twitter; Bluesky, created by Twitter’s founder; and Threads, recently launched by Meta.
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