4 new social media features you need to know this week

TikTok, YouTube and Twitter announced new features last week that promise to improve photo and video editing, content tagging, and audio spaces.

Here is a roundup of this week’s news.

TikTok made the latest move in its war with Instagram by adding a way that users can share still images on its app.

The new feature looks exactly like Instagram’s carousels.

“Photo Mode allows you to share carousel posts of still images that automatically display one after another,” TikTok said in a statement on its site. “You can add music to soundtrack the images, which viewers can swipe through at their own pace.”

TikTok also announced that creators now have 2,200 characters to accompany each clip which will allow more description on posts and give more power for users to search for posts on the app and search engines.

TikTok also recently announced new video editing tools designed to help communicators easily adjust clips, sounds, images and text on the app.

The site announced in the blog post that these changes will allow users to: