TikTok is adding support for text posts

NevermindNoMind , 11 months ago

Does this mean my wife will stop sending me videos where is just text and a guy giving the camera side eye for 30 seconds? If so, thank fuck.

Blaze , 11 months ago

I feel your pain

deweydecibel , 11 months ago

Seems like a good time to remind everyone of Musk’s ties to China. Kill Twitter so the TikTok can take it’s users, get some nice political kickbacks for his Tesla operations in China.

Tinfoil hat theory? Sure, absolutely, but it makes about as much sense as any of Musk’s moves with Twitter lately.

Chariotwheel , 11 months ago

I just pick the easy answer of Elon Musk being an arrogant prick that overestimates how smart he is and keeps tripping over his own ego.

Did China make him call that rescue diver a pedo too? At some point, we must accept that Elon is not a mega-smart puppeteer—just a rich person with more money than sense, but a huge desire to be loved.

stevedidWHAT , 11 months ago

Predict everything, do everything, be everything, become your fucking God

CONSUME MOTHA FUCKA

Durotar , 11 months ago

The usual “we made it big with one feature, now let’s add features that all other social media have”.

kadu , 11 months ago

Social media platforms (and most modern entertainment, really) fight for your time.

If you’re scrolling Twitter you’re not on TikTok. If you’re playing the Nintendo Switch you’re not on TikTok. If you’re on TikTok you’re not on YouTube.

So what ends up happening is a board of directors ask “why is this user on Twitter and not TikTok?” somebody answers “Well, we serve short videos and they were looking for text microblogs, these are two different categories” and the directors go “well then let’s add text microblogs”.

In fact, the directors could be forced to do so - if they are made aware of one reason their company isn’t capturing even more of the user’s time, but don’t act on it, investors might consider this as intentionally sabotaging their growth.