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TikTok adds text-only posts as social media battle escalates

www.bbc.com TikTok adds text-only posts as social media battle escalates

The video streaming app widens its uses as Twitter rebrands as X and Meta launches Threads.

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at this point all social media will evolve into the exact same formats.

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- At one point nearly every platform was adding stories, and now they add long text posts. Everybody wants to feast on Twitter's corpse.
  
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  This will definitely not make me use TikTok. I can only imagine what kind of garbage people will post on text form. I'm obviously not the target demographic for that platform but I cannot comprehend what people enjoy about it. I had some old coworkers who used to send me tiktoks daily and they were annoying, insane, made no sense. Now put that in text format.
  
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- Carcinisation
  
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The way social media companies just chase each others features is ridiculous. They can't be content with being unique or offering a specialized feature set. No, they all have to do image posts, then stores, then video, then short videos.

However, anything that helps kill the trend of every goddamned thing being a video even when it doesn't need to be is a very welcome change

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- If TikTok starts allowing standard hyperlinks it would dramatically reduce the platform's peak harm potential. Tiktok's single biggest problem rn is that it is literally impossible to cite your sources - that's why it's the runaway global leader for misinformation. Adding text would help, bringing it back down to regular Facebook levels of social erosion and election distortion.
  
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  runaway global leader for misinformation
  
  I'd really like to see that study if you've got it handy
  
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- My instagram usage nowdays consists of me scrolling past 20 videos untill I reach the end of my feed and then close the site and realize it gave me zero content. For some reason I still go there once a day.
  
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  "These cigarettes used to make me happy," he opined as he took another drag.
  
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Every app wants to capture all of your time, but what these app companies don't realize is that it's sometimes better to do one thing really well and capture 100% of time spent on that particular thing.

TikTok already handles text posts - it's called "teenagers pointing at captions on their videos and making faces". It's the culture, and TikTok has excelled at this very video-focused culture. Adding text posts will bore the sorts of people who are on TikTok for videos and may result in less engagement, not more.

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- tiktok absolutely already has text-only posting for people who want it.
  
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The Internet is a mess

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- My slice is my mess. The slices owned by corps are theirs (and maybe the people who confuse their identities with them)
  
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Stories, short videos, now short text, I truly don't get why they have to copy ALL the features of each other

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