The same day Elon Musk abruptly dropped Twitter鈥檚 name and bird logo as part of its supposed transition to an 鈥渁nything app鈥� called X, TikTok impishly announced it will begin letting its users post 鈥� you guessed it 鈥� text-based messages.

The popular Chinese-owned app, best known for lip-synced dances, often farcical 鈥渃hallenges鈥� and other short videos, didn鈥檛 offer much explanation for the new feature. It did note in a statement that the service is 鈥渆xpanding the boundaries of content creation鈥� by showcasing the written creativity users have previously had to share via comments and video captions.

TikTok announced the new feature late Monday.

It wasn鈥檛 clear to what extent users have embraced text posts in their first full day of availability. That鈥檚 partly because searching on variations of the term 鈥渢ext post鈥� largely turned up examples of a popular video genre 鈥� those focused on text message phone conversations, typically selected for humorous effect. There were also a few brave users offering video explanations on how to make text posts.

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