TikTok launches text posts feature to rival Twitter and Threads

Social network giant TikTok announced a function launch intended at dethroning Twitter (recently rebranded to X) as the go-to text-based social media platform.Just 20 days after Mark Zuckerbergs Meta released Threads to rival X, TikTok signed up with the race by allowing TikTokers to develop and publish text-based content. The new function aims to supply a platform for users that display their creativity over comments and captions.TikTok user interface for text posts. Source: TikTokWhen creating a new post on TikTok, users can pick between video, text and image. Unlike Threads and X, TikTok allows greater customization to text posts, enabling TikTokers to include functions such as location and music.According to TikTok, the other features “to make your text-based content stand out” are hashtags, stickers and tags, background colors and conserving drafts.Related: Elon Musk to rebrand Twitter to X, but Crypto Twitter has other ideasWhile TikTok aims to differentiate itself from its rivals, Threads has actually been accused of blatantly copying an interface that Twitter has been utilizing for over a decade. However, the similarity in between Threads and X is no longer restricted to the visuals.Threads just recently enforced rate limitations to obstruct crypto and spam bots.Adam Mosseris description for the introduction of rate limitations on Threads. Source: Threads” Spam attacks have chosen up so were going to have to get tighter on things like rate limitations, which is going to suggest more inadvertently limiting active people (incorrect positives). If you get captured up [ in] those defenses let us know,” discussed Instagram head Adam Mosseri.Magazine: Tokenizing music royalties as NFTs could help the next Taylor Swift