TikTok is rolling out its Snapchat-style stories to more users

TikTok’s experiment with Snapchat-style tales is continuous, with the corporate additional rolling out the characteristic to a bigger group of customers at this time. In the event you’ve gotten the characteristic, you’ll be greeted with a brand new banner once you launch the app encouraging you to create a narrative.

In a press release supplied to TechCrunch, TikTok famous that “Presently, we’re increasing a pilot take a look at, which offers creators with further codecs to deliver their artistic concepts to life for the TikTok neighborhood,” though that doesn’t say what number of customers are at present included within the take a look at or what the long run rollout of the characteristic will seem like.

Including a video or picture to a narrative works extraordinarily equally to taking a photograph or video for TikTok’s normal characteristic, with the identical modifying instruments, results, filters, and sounds. In contrast to a daily TikTok video, although, tales received’t present up immediately in your profile or feed and disappear after 24 hours.

TikTok tales are additionally lacking a significant characteristic that Instagram, Fb, Snapchat, Whatsapp, and others all provide — critically, it lacks the scrolling bar of tales from accounts you observe to faucet by way of (though photographs from TikTok’s earlier take a look at present that the corporate was experimenting with a pop-over vertical window that might have served an analogous operate).

Proper now, although, the one strategy to see a TikTok story (assuming you’ve been chosen to attempt the characteristic out) is to see a blue-circled profile image on a video you’re watching. Faucet it, and also you’ll launch you straight into the story feed for that person. You may as well see the identical blue circle on a person’s profile if you happen to’re viewing it, and tapping the profile image there may even allow you to view the story.

Nonetheless, given the recognition of tales in different social media apps and TikTok’s ongoing assessments, it looks as if a proper rollout of the characteristic to your complete TikTok person base is much less a query of “if?” and extra “when?”.