As we speak, TikTok has introduced that it’s making textual content posts out there to all customers within the app, offering one other method for TikTok customers to share a unique type of content material, with a show that’s much like Instagram Tales’ text-only updates.

As you possibly can see on this instance, TikTok’s textual content posts, which have been in testing with some customers over the previous few months, allow you so as to add a full-screen of textual content, to which you’ll then add music, stickers, and so on.

You may edit the background coloration to your liking, in addition to the textual content fonts, and placement inside the body. Your textual content posts may be as much as 1,000 characters lengthy, supplying you with loads of room to seize consideration together with your phrases within the app.

As per TikTok:

“Creators have been capable of make content material on TikTok throughout quite a lot of codecs, from LIVE movies to photographs, Duets to Sew. Textual content is the newest addition to choices for content material creation, permitting creators to share their tales, poems, lyrics, and different written content material on TikTok, giving creators one other strategy to specific themselves and making it even simpler to create.”

It may very well be an attention-grabbing strategy to cease customers as they scroll, with wannabe wordsmiths now additionally capable of construct an viewers, even when they’re digicam shy.

Textual content posts are literally already pretty frequent within the app, with poetry accounts sharing static pictures of poems, accompanied by music. This new replace simply makes this a extra formal providing, however it is going to increase your posting issues, and may very well be a extra responsive, participating format for word-based updates.

The brand new ‘textual content’ choice might be out there out of your digicam instruments, which is able to then take you to a devoted textual content creation web page, the place you’ll be capable of kind out your put up. You’ll additionally be capable of embrace tags and hashtags to hyperlink to different components of the app.

It may very well be a useful addition, or in any case, one thing to experiment with within the app.

Possibly I’ll drop a few my very own poems in there, within the hopes of turning into TikTok’s poet laureate of the brand new period.

Yeah, in all probability not, however it is going to present one other strategy to join with audiences within the app.

You may learn extra about TikTok’s new textual content posting choice right here.