TikTok Is Getting Stories, like other Social Media Platforms
As sure because the sun rises within the east and sets within the west, so too is it about guaranteed in 2021 that social media platforms will eventually test some ill-fated version of Instagram Stories in their feeds. And as of Wednesday, TikTok is not any longer the exception: The platform is reportedly experimenting with replacement stories features.
The rumor was first reported by Geekout founder Matt Navarra, and a TikTok spokesperson has since confirmed its veracity to The Verge. The new addition is going to be a bit like the features you’ve little question known, loved, or barely used on Facebook (“Stories”), Pinterest (“Story Pins”), LinkedIn (“Stories,” yet again), and Twitter (the recently canned “Fleets”), wherein it’ll allow users to post content that’s life for just 24 hours before it’s automatically deleted. Instagram itself stole Stories straight from Snapchat, but that’s ancient history.
According to screengrabs posted by Navarro, TikTok’s latest feature also will be called Stories, of course, and can sleep in a newly added slide-over sidebar from which you will be ready to access a carousel of content from the accounts you follow before it vanishes forever. during a statement given to, a spokesperson for the app, owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, confirmed that a little pilot test of the feature is already underway in many nations outside the U.S.
“We’re always brooding about new ways to bring value to our community and enrich the TikTok experience,” the spokesperson said. “Currently we’re experimenting with ways to offer creators additional formats to bring their creative ideas to life for the TikTok community.”
The news comes only one day after YouTube launched its own copycat short-term content format, Shorts, which it’s getting to incentivize creators to participate by offering eligible users up to $10,000 per month out of a $100 million creator fund.
As you recognize, social media platforms can not exist as distinct entities-they got to cannibalize each other’s every move, function, feature, and update until they’ve consolidated into one mega-platform that’s just a short-form video version of a primal scream. We wish TikTok, the newest entrant into this gauntlet, the simplest of luck.
