Oh, wow, TikTok’s copying one other function from Instagram, what a shock.

As goes the circle of replication in social media improvement, it’s TikTok’s flip to take cues from the sector, with a new “Collaboration” function now within the works on the app.

As you possibly can see on this screenshot, shared by app researcher Radu Oncescu, TikTok’s creating a brand new possibility that may allow you to tag collaborators on a publish, which is able to then hyperlink their profiles to your publish particulars.

The group from The SpAndroid additionally appeared into the newest back-end code updates to search out extra information concerning the possibility, with the code components suggesting that:

• Creators will be capable of invite as much as 5 different creators to make a collaboration publish
• Customers might be requested to approve collaborator listings, and can be capable of decline these they don’t need to be included on
• Customers may even be capable of take away themselves as collaborators retrospectively
• Collaborator posts will seem on the creator and collaborator profiles, although solely the creator will be capable of edit the publish
• You’ll be capable of invite folks to collaborate on a publish as much as 4 occasions every month

So it’s just about the identical as collaborative posts on IG, although on Instagram, you possibly can add six collaborators, and there’s no restrict on what number of collab posts per 30 days.

And whereas it might not be solely authentic, it may very well be a invaluable addition, offering one other technique to have interaction with particular audiences, and improve your attain within the app.

It may be a greater technique to conduct affiliate campaigns and showcase your model to extra customers by way of companion accounts.

The function hasn’t been launched as but, but it surely appears to be like to be in late-stage testing, which ought to see it arrive someday quickly.