TikTok Introduces Text Posts to Rival Instagram Stories
TikTok, the undisputed leader in short-form videos, is expanding its horizons by introducing a feature that enables users to share their stories, poems, lyrics, and other written content. This move provides users with an additional avenue for self-expression.
The toolkit looks simple enough. Just go to the app’s Camera page and select “text”. You can write whatever you want, add sounds, mark places, enable comments and even integrate with Duets. The company says these text messages are as interactive and dynamic as video and photo messages. For this purpose, you can also add background colors, hashtags and of course apply plenty of stickers.
Just like video and photo messages, you can save any text message as a draft for further editing, or discard it entirely if you’re not sure the entire Internet needs to see your pizza poem.
If this sounds a bit like using Instagram Stories to create a text-only message, you’re definitely on to something. This wouldn’t be the first time TikTok has looked to Instagram for inspiration (or vice versa!) Last year, it added static images to its toolkit alongside short videos. TikTok’s photo mode faced near-universal scrutiny, but it’s become quite popular, and the company surely hopes that this text mode will follow suit.
