Finally, literature is coming back.

Today, TikTok announced it's rolling out text posts to all users in the app, giving another way for TikTok users to share a different form of content, with a presentation that's similar to Instagram Stories' text-only updates.
TikTok's text posts, which have been testing with some users over the last few months, let you add a full-screen of text, to which you can then add music, stickers, etc.

The style can be customized to your preferences, including background color, as well as text fonts and placement within the frame. Your text posts can be as long as 1,000 characters, making it easy to take the reader by storm with words on the app.
TikTok states

"Creators have been able to make content on TikTok across a range of formats from LIVE videos to photos, Duets to Stitch. Text is the latest addition to options for content creation and will allow creators to share their stories, poems, lyrics, and other written content on TikTok-giving creators another way to express themselves and making it easier yet.

It could also be an interesting way to stop users as they scroll with wanna-be wordsmiths now also able to build an audience, even if they're camera shy.

Text posts are actually already fairly common in the app, with poetry accounts sharing static shots of poems, accompanied by music. This new update just makes this a more formal offering, but it will expand your posting considerations, and could be a more responsive, engaging format for word-based updates.

The new 'text' option will be located under your camera tools, and from there it will take you to a dedicated page designed for text creation, where you can type your post. You'll also be able to add tags and hashtags that connect to other elements of the app.

It could be a useful addition, or at the least, something to mess around with in the app.

Maybe I’ll drop a couple of my own poems in there, in the hopes of becoming TikTok’s poet laureate of the new era.

Yeah, probably not, but it will provide another way to connect with audiences in the app.