As Elon Musk does his best to scare users away from Twitter/X, more and more platforms are offering alternative places for fleeing Twitter users to post short text updates.
The latest addition to the list is TikTok, which now allows its users to post short text posts instead of just images or videos, the original content that made TikTok popular. With TikTok’s new feature, users can post text updates of up to 1000 characters, which can be customized with different colors and styles. Other users can interact with the posts by posting replies and pinning posts they like. Users can also add sounds and hashtags to their posts if they wish.
Whether the TikTok generation is ready for text posts remains to be seen. However, it’s clear that more and more platforms, such as Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram Threads, and now TikTok, are eager to attract Twitter users who are leaving the platform, or X, as it’s apparently going to be called now.
