The popular social media platform TikTok, which recently competed with Spotify with its new music platform, has now added a feature to compete with Twitter (with its new name X). The feature introduced by the company today only allows users to share text messages apart from photos and video.

TikTok announced that it has started making text-based posts available with a blog post it shared. Examining the screenshots, the feature was seen to be visually similar to adding text to Instagram stories.

Up to 1000 characters of text can be shared, stickers and music can be added to the messages.

Users can use the feature by selecting the share text option from the camera page. TikTok adds that text-based messages have many additional features that users will love.

While sharing choose the background color and the look of the text, add music, sound, stickers, hashtags and tag someone it will be possible. Of course there is a character limit set for these messages. The company has set this limit to 1000 characters.

TikTok may want to emulate Twitter with text messages. Recently, we have seen applications like Threads application and Bluesky, which reached millions of users in a short period of time, become popular. All of these events could be a harbinger of the waning dominance of Twitter, which has become Elon Musk’s microblogging toy.