TikTok to Now Let Users Create Longer Videos of Up to three Minutes

TikTok stated on Thursday it can introduce an possibility over the subsequent few weeks to let customers on its platform create longer movies of as much as three minutes.

TikTok, that permits customers to report quick mobile-friendly movies that may last as long as 60 seconds and add particular results in addition to soundtracks pulled from a music library, has grow to be wildly fashionable with youngsters in recent times.

“Over the coming weeks, we’ll be rolling out the option to create longer videos to everyone on TikTok, giving our global community the flexibility to film, upload, and edit videos up to three minutes in length directly within TikTok,” the social media firm stated in a blog post.

The success of TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, has additionally prompted many social media firms so as to add short-video companies to their platforms, with Facebook’s Instagram launching quick video clips, often known as Reels, in addition to Snap’s Snapchat rolling out Spotlight final November.

In June, the US Commerce Department stated it was rescinding a listing of prohibited transactions with TikTok and WeChat that have been issued in September because the Trump administration sought to dam new US downloads of each Chinese-owned apps.

The withdrawals got here after President Joe Biden earlier this month withdrew a collection of Trump-era government orders that sought to ban new downloads of Tencent-owned WeChat and TikTok and ordered a Commerce Department overview of safety issues posed by these apps and others.

The Commerce Department beneath Trump additionally had sought to ban different transactions that may have successfully banned WeChat’s use within the United States and later sought comparable restrictions that may have barred TikTok’s use.

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