TikTok has added text posts to its output (Picture: TikTok)
TikTok has established itself as a social media force to be reckoned with over the past few years, with its short-form videos offering us entertainment, life hacks and a whole lot more besides.
Now, however, the platform is branching out into territory more commonly covered by the likes of Twitter – or X, as it’s more recently become known – by allowing users to put out text posts and photos alongside their video content.
Users will not only be able to post text but they’ll be able to customise those posts – by adding sound, location or their own reaction to other people’s words on the TikTok.
‘These features make it so your text posts are just as dynamic and interactive as any video or photo post,’ TikTok has said.
If you’re a regular TikTok user and you want to try your hand at text posts on the site, how do you go about it?
Follow our step-by-step guide to find out more…
How to post text posts on TikTok
Adding your own text posts to TikTok is pretty simple, and here’s how you do it…
Open up the app and access the Camera, which will give you a choice of options: Photo, Video or Text.
Choose the Text option and you’ll be directed to the text creation page – where you’ll be able to type out your text post.
You can enhance your posts once they’re written (Picture: TikTok)
Posts have a 1,000 character limit, and you can also add extra features to them to enhance what you’ve written.
How to enhance your text posts on TikTok
The text creation page also offers you options for customising your text posts – for example you can tag a location and you can enable comments.
You can also add Duets – which allows other users to post content side-by-side with content from another creator on TikTok.
The page also offers a number of other options for making your text posts look awesome.
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Stickers: You can select stickers which relate to your content and add them to the post
Tags and Hashtags: Just like in video or photo posts, you can tag other accounts or add relevant hashtags.
Background colors: You can choose from a range of background colours to enhance your text post.
Adding Sound: Sound is a big part of TikTok, and you can add it to your text posts to – brighten up your posts with music that your readers can listen to as they check out your words.
Draft and Discard: Save your drafts and store them with other unpublished posts for later editing or discard them entirely.
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