Meta’s try to tackle Twitter hasn’t been completely profitable, as Threads nonetheless wants quite a lot of options to supply an identical customers expertise. However one other contender to take Twitter’s place has simply made its first step towards fulfilling its plans.
TikTok has simply introduced textual content posts, a brand new function that provides customers a Twitter-like expertise. It will enable creators to share their tales and different kinds of content material in a distinct, easier means. The brand new function is on the market beginning right now and doesn’t contain too many clicks to make it work.
If you entry the Digital camera web page, you’ll now be capable to select from three choices: photograph, video, and textual content. Tapping on the textual content choice will direct customers to the textual content creation web page the place they will sort out the content material of their submit. It’s not as quick and easy as tweeting a message however contemplating that TikTok is a video-first platform, this should do for now.
Along with creating posts, TikTok customers may also customise their content material by together with Sound, tagging a location, enabling feedback, and permitting Duets. It is going to enrich the textual content posts and make them extra dynamic past what Twitter affords at the moment.
For instance, TikTok customers can add stickers to their textual content posts, tags and hashtags, in addition to background colours and sounds. On prime of that, it’s additionally potential to save lots of drafts and retailer them with different unpublished posts for later modifying or discard them if you happen to’re not content material with how they find yourself.
It’s a neat new function that may in all probability not appeal to lots of Twitter’s customers, since Musk’s social platform caters to a distinct sort of viewers, however you would possibly as properly strive in out earlier than the ship sinks simply to have some alternate options to retreat to.
