TikTok exacts revenge by copying an elementary function of Instagram: the publication of photos
Photo Mode, coming to TikTok in its latest update, seems to be inspired by Instagram's most basic feature. Now, you can upload photos, and add descriptions of up to 2,200 words.
Hearing that Instagram has once again copied some of TikTok’s features is not uncommon. Just a few days ago, we told you about one of them. Now, however, it seems that the tables have turned. And it is that TikTok has decided to copy the most basic function of Instagram: the publication of photos and their extensive descriptions.
Under the name Photo Mode, TikTok presents us with a new feature. With the latest update, you can upload multiple static images in one post, plus add a caption of up to 2,200 characters. In this way, we see how the fashionable social network tries to adapt to a trend that Instagram has begun to eliminate.
Of course, although the Meta social network has inspired them, TikTok has added flavor to the matter. For example, users can also add music to their posts, giving a new dimension to their shared photos.
Photo Mode comes to TikTok so that you can share your moments with all your followers.
“When you prefer to express yourself in other formats than video, we have launched Photo Mode,” says TikTok on its official blog. This proposal will allow you to create a carousel, ideal for sharing images with all your followers, similar to the one we have known on Instagram for several years. These photos will also be displayed one after the other, following a sequence.
Of course, each user can decide at what rate they move between the images you have uploaded. The latter represents a change in the social network, and that is that TikTok is quite famous for allowing each creator to dictate the pace at which each publication is experienced.
Also, we have the longest captions compared to those on Instagram. With its 2,200 character limit, TikTok hopes to “provide another space for them to express themselves and connect deeply with others.”
“We know that there are all kinds of formats that people use to express themselves on TikTok,” they add in the post. Undoubtedly, it is a function that adds a new dimension to the social network. Will it be a blow to the Meta platform? Let no one doubt it.
The beginning of the hunger games for social networks
For some time, we have seen how social networks have begun to copy each other from Instagram, taking the soul of TikTok to Twitter, adding features copied from Instagram only to remove them later, as was the case with Fleets. However, Snapchat has also joined the issue, copying essential elements of BeReal, the new fashion app that Instagram had already tried a few weeks ago.
Today, it seems that TikTok has been unable to resist the trend. Thus, we can see what the future of social networks will be like. Many apps are copied until they are so similar that it is increasingly difficult to differentiate them.
