TikTok adds text-only posts as social media battle escalates

[Social Media]

 

Chinese-owned video streaming app TikTok says it will offer text-only posts as competition between social media giants heats up.

The platform says the new feature gives users "another way to express themselves".

Earlier this month, TikTok launched a new music streaming service to rival platforms like Spotify and Apple Music.

And on Monday, Elon Musk's Twitter ditched its famous blue bird logo and switched to a black and white X.

TikTok users will now be offered three options on the app - whether to post photos, videos or text.

They will also be able to customise posts by adding sound, location or Duets, which are video reactions to posts by other TikTok users.

 

"These features make it so your text posts are just as dynamic and interactive as any video or photo post," TikTok said.

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TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, recently launched a new music streaming service, TikTok Music, in Brazil and Indonesia.

 

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[mrfill]

I'm not quite sure how I can contain the excitement. After all, its not every week that a small blue bird is replaced by an X and then after that iconic, earth shattering, awesome experience to have another even more uniquer and iconical and awsomating news that, if you can write, you can send unvideoed clips of just iconic words on TokTik to your netizen pals. Next week they will release even more awesome and uniquer iconic feature experiences. How will we cope????

[Tofflow]

It's interesting to see how TikTok is evolving and adding new features to keep up with the competition in the social media landscape. The introduction of text-only posts is a significant move, giving users more ways to express themselves creatively. It's also worth noting the recent launch of TikTok's music streaming service, which shows their commitment to diversifying their offerings.

[OneMoreFarang]

I wonder how many of those social media users ever ask themselves if maybe life would be better without it.

 

[OneMoreFarang]

On 7/27/2023 at 4:02 PM, mrfill said:

After all, its not every week that a small blue bird is replaced by an X

But the funny thing is that the domain is still twitter.com.

As far as I know there is no way to register just X.com. That must be really frustrating for the owner. 

[ripstanley]

Very old post. Social Media has disappeared. Thank goodness

[Tofflow]

23 hours ago, Tofflow said:

It's interesting to see how TikTok is evolving and adding new features to keep up with the competition in the social media landscape. The introduction of text-only posts is a significant move, giving users more ways to express themselves creatively. It's also worth noting the recent launch of TikTok's music streaming service, which shows their commitment to diversifying their offerings.

Speaking of TikTok features, you might want to explore the benefits of TikTok Auto Views to enhance your content's visibility. It's always exciting to see how these platforms continue to innovate and provide users with more options to engage and connect with their audience.

Edited January 12 by Tofflow

[treetops]

On 1/11/2024 at 11:11 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

But the funny thing is that the domain is still twitter.com.

As far as I know there is no way to register just X.com. That must be really frustrating for the owner. 

 

X.com existed before single letter domains became restricted in 1993 therefore was allowed to remain in existence even though new single letter domains would not be permitted.  Twitter must have acquired it from it's original owner but just use it to redirect traffic to twitter.com