TikTok is testing a “repost” button in its app that permits customers to shortly re-share a clip with their followers. The new function, which the corporate described as an early take a look at, isn’t accessible to everybody but, although it seems to be cropping up for a variety of customers over the past a number of days.

“Currently, we’re experimenting with a new way for people to share TikTok videos they enjoy,” a TikTok spokesperson stated in an announcement. The function seems as a yellow “repost” button alongside the app’s different sharing options. TechCrunch reports that reposting a clip received’t publish it to your profile, however it should push the video to the “For You” feeds of your folks. You may add a quick remark that can seem with the clip so your folks can see “why you reposted this video.”

While TikTok has lengthy been identified for customers endlessly remixing and re-sharing one another’s clips, the repost button is the primary time the app has had one thing akin to a retweet – the power to shortly re-share a video out of your feed as is. As TechCrunch factors out, TikTok could also be treading rigorously with the function as making it too straightforward to recycle posts may pollute customers’ “For You” feeds, that are identified for being hyper-personalized.

That may very well be why the corporate is limiting the visibility of reposts to pals who observe one another, at the least for now. Elsewhere, the corporate is wanting into different methods of blending up the sorts of movies folks see of their suggestions, together with limiting of doubtless problematic content material.