As the fight between social media companies heats up, the video streaming app TikTok, which is owned by China, has announced that it will allow text-only posts.
According to the company, the new function provides users with an additional avenue for self-expression.
TikTok introduced a new music service for streaming music at the beginning of this month, positioning itself as a competitor to services such as Spotify as well as Apple Music.
And on Monday, the well-known blue bird that served as Twitter’s emblem was replaced by a simple black and white X. Twitter is owned by Elon Musk.
Users of the TikTok app will now have the choice between uploading photographs, videos, or text to their posts within the application.
They will also have the ability to personalize their posts by including sound, Duets, or a location, that serves as video responses to posts made by users of other TikTok accounts.
According to TikTok, the inclusion of these capabilities will allow the user’s text postings to be just as dynamic and participatory as any photo or video post.
TikTok Music is a recently introduced music streaming service that was just introduced in Indonesia and Brazil. TikTok is controlled by ByteDance, which is based in China.
The beta version of the app was also made available in Australia, Mexico, and Singapore by the corporation over the previous week.
Users will be able to listen to, share, and save the music that they found on TikTok, and they will also be able to share their favorite tracks as well as artists with the TikTok community that they belong to. This information was provided by a spokesperson.
The app is currently conducting trials of additional features, such as a new landscape mode, with a subset of users located all over the world.
TikTok overtook the market share held by Google, the dominant search engine in the United States, to become the most visited website in the world in 2021.
Additionally, the app stated during that year that it had over a billion users who were active all around the world.
The competition between competing social media companies, such as the company that owns Instagram (Meta) and X, which is Mr. Musk’s rebranded version of Twitter, has heated up over the past few weeks.
This month, Meta’s brand-new Threads platform became available on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store in one hundred countries, including the United Kingdom.
After some time had passed, the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, revealed that his organization’s Threads platform had attracted over one hundred million users in fewer than five days.
A new logo for the social networking site Twitter was introduced this week, which has a white X with a black background. Previously, the site was branded with a bluebird.
According to Mr. Musk, the term “tweets” will likewise be altered to “x’s” in the near future.
