RIP TikTok Notes. We hardly knew thee.
Lower than a 12 months after the launch of its separate photo-sharing app, TikTok is discontinuing the experiment, and shutting down TikTok Notes for all customers.
Nicely, all customers that would entry it, that’s, as TikTok Notes was solely ever made obtainable in sure nations.
As you may see on this notification, shared by app researcher Jonah Manzano, Notes customers are actually being knowledgeable of the platform’s premature demise, which is approaching Could eighth. The notification additionally urges Notes account holders to take a look at its different app, Lemon8, with the intention to proceed their “inventive journey.”
Which is not any actual shock, as a result of as I reported when Notes was launched final April, it’s basically the identical as Lemon8, simply with out the product focus (Notes beneath on the left, Lemon8 on the appropriate).
TikTok customers which have a linked Notes account are additionally being knowledgeable of the app’s pending demise.
Is it a giant deal?
I imply, in all probability not. TikTok wouldn’t be shutting it down if it was seeing any vital utilization, and once more, it was solely ever made obtainable in sure areas anyway, so most individuals in all probability do not even know what Notes is.
However basically, this was an experiment, and an try for TikTok to develop its cultural impression.
The event of a separate, still-image-focused platform appeared to be sparked by the rise of the Instagram-like Xiaohongshu in China, with TikTok in search of extra methods to develop its market footprint, and veer into different areas.
However once more, Lemon8 is basically the identical factor, and it looks as if TikTok now agrees with this.
So, no extra Notes app, for the few those that had been utilizing it.
One other social platform gone to the cloud, by no means to be accessed once more.
