Every app wants to capture all of your time, but what these app companies don’t realize is that it’s sometimes better to do one thing really well and capture 100% of time spent on that particular thing.
TikTok already handles text posts - it’s called “teenagers pointing at captions on their videos and making faces”. It’s the culture, and TikTok has excelled at this very video-focused culture. Adding text posts will bore the sorts of people who are on TikTok for videos and may result in less engagement, not more.
Every app wants to capture all of your time, but what these app companies don’t realize is that it’s sometimes better to do one thing really well and capture 100% of time spent on that particular thing.
TikTok already handles text posts - it’s called “teenagers pointing at captions on their videos and making faces”. It’s the culture, and TikTok has excelled at this very video-focused culture. Adding text posts will bore the sorts of people who are on TikTok for videos and may result in less engagement, not more.
tiktok absolutely already has text-only posting for people who want it.