Social Media Landscape: TikTok, the app that lets you make and watch videos, is really popular on social media. It was downloaded more than 2 billion times all over the world in October 2020. TikTok just announced a cool new thing: you can now make posts with only text. This will help them stay ahead in a
competitive market.
This clever move happens right after Twitter changed its appearance and Facebook released Threads, which shows that the competition between these major social media companies is becoming more intense. TikTok wants to give its creators and community more ways to express
themselves and be creative with text posts.
TikTok said on Monday that they’re really excited about giving creators more ways to make content. They want to give creators a special place to show off their writing skills. The new thing goes well with the stuff you can already make, like photos and videos. Now you have three cool ways to show who you are.
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TikTok users can now opt for text posts by navigating to the text creation page, where they can effortlessly craft the content of their posts. The platform makes sure that this text stuff stays interesting and fun. You can change your posts in lots of ways, like adding sound, saying where you are, letting people comment, and doing duets withothers.
This new text-only thing happened right after TikTok said they were going to start doing music streaming. They might be competing with big companies like Apple Music and Spotify. The agreement with Warner Music Group will result in additional funds and opportunities for artists and songwriters to promote their music.
As TikTok tries out new things and explores new areas, the competition between big social media companies gets stronger. The fight to be the best on social media is really intense right now. TikTok is trying to help its creators and keep people interested all around the world.