TikTok launches text posts feature to rival Twitter and Threads

Social media elephantine TikTok announced a diagnostic motorboat aimed astatine dethroning Twitter (recently rebranded to X) arsenic the go-to text-based societal media platform.

Just 20 days aft Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta launched Threads to rival X, TikTok joined the contention by allowing TikTokers to make and station text-based content. The caller feature aims to supply a level for users that show their creativity implicit comments and captions.

TikTok idiosyncratic interface for substance posts. Source: TikTok

When creating a caller station connected TikTok, users present get an enactment to take betwixt photo, video, and text. Unlike Threads and X, TikTok allows greater customization to substance posts, allowing TikTokers to see features specified arsenic determination and music.

According to TikTok, the different features provided “to marque your text-based contented basal out” are stickers, tags and hashtags, inheritance colors and redeeming drafts.

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While TikTok strives to differentiate itself from its competitors, Threads has been accused of blatantly copying an interface that Twitter has been utilizing for implicit a decade. However, the similarity betwixt Threads and X is nary longer constricted to the visuals.

Threads precocious imposed complaint limits to artifact crypto and spam bots.

Adam Mosseri’s mentation for the instauration of complaint limits connected Threads. Source: Threads

“Spam attacks person picked up truthful we’re going to person to get tighter connected things similar complaint limits, which is going to mean much unintentionally limiting progressive radical (false positives). If you get caught up [in] those protections fto america know,” explained Instagram caput Adam Mosseri.

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