Screenshot from TikTok weblog
TikTok, YouTube and Twitter introduced new options final week that promise to enhance picture and video enhancing, content material tagging, and audio areas.
Here’s a roundup of this week’s information.
TikTok provides a brand new picture mode for nonetheless pictures
TikTok made the newest transfer in its struggle with Instagram by including a approach that customers can share nonetheless pictures on its app.
The brand new characteristic appears precisely like Instagram’s carousels.
“Picture Mode permits you to share carousel posts of nonetheless pictures that routinely show one after one other,” TikTok stated in an announcement on its web site. “You’ll be able to add music to soundtrack the photographs, which viewers can swipe via at their very own tempo.”
TikTok additionally introduced that creators now have 2,200 characters to accompany every clip which is able to permit extra description on posts and provides extra energy for customers to seek for posts on the app and serps.
TikTok proclaims new video enhancing instruments
TikTok additionally just lately introduced new video enhancing instruments designed to assist communicators simply modify clips, sounds, pictures and textual content on the app.
The location introduced within the weblog submit that these adjustments will permit customers to:
- Edit clips: Stack, trim, and break up video clips.
- Edit sounds: Minimize, trim, and set the length for sounds.
- Edit and place textual content: Extra simply edit, place, and set the length for textual content.
- Add overlays: Add picture and video overlays for picture-in-picture (or video-in-video) stacking.
- Regulate video pace: Velocity or gradual the tempo of video clips.
- Body content material: Rotate or zoom out and in of the body of particular person clips.
YouTube introduces account handles
YouTube launched account handles along with present channel names.
These can be recognized with @ earlier than the channel title.
Handles can be steadily rolled out and accounts which have already been verified with Google will stay verified except they alter their channel title.
“Handles will seem on channel pages and Shorts, in order that they’ll be immediately and constantly recognizable,” YouTube stated in a weblog submit saying the transfer. “It’ll quickly be easier and quicker to say one another in feedback, group posts, video descriptions and extra. For instance, creators could be shouted out in a point out in feedback or tagged within the title of a latest collab, serving to them enhance visibility and attain with new audiences.”
Twitter eyes devoted audio areas in its Communities
Twitter is taking a look at permitting group admins to create devoted audio areas of their teams.
Communities 🤝 Areas
beginning as we speak we’re rolling out the Neighborhood Areas check the place some admins + mods will have the ability to host Areas of their Communities pic.twitter.com/gdlxR9IZiH
— Twitter Communities (@HiCommunities) October 12, 2022
“With this experiment, a gaggle of admins and moderators within the US will obtain entry to create reside Areas inside their Twitter Communities,” Twitter stated. “Audio in Communities provides an additional layer of persona and connectivity past 280 characters; by initiating reside audio conversations particular to a Neighborhood and matter, Neighborhood admins will have the ability to higher lead their Communities, interact their members, and take part in high quality conversations with others who share the identical pursuits.”
In keeping with socialmediatoday.com, the new Twitter characteristic is much like Reddit’s Reddit Talks audio chat choice and Fb’s Neighborhood Audio Channels.
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