Comment by haunter
4 months ago
Vine. It was already pretty big back in 2013 but Twitter had no idea what to do with it. TikTok actually launched just a few months before Vine was shut down and erased from the internet.
4 months ago
Vine. It was already pretty big back in 2013 but Twitter had no idea what to do with it. TikTok actually launched just a few months before Vine was shut down and erased from the internet.
Whoever took the decision to kill Vine was an absolute moron, even without hindsight. It was square videos, how hard could it have been to shove an ads banner above it and call it a day? Incredible
They also killed Periscope right as the explosion of streaming online video happened... Twitter has always been pretty incompetent.
There's an excellent write up at https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/28/extreme...
That is so fascinating. They completely ignored their most most valuable users and thus the users left and the site collapsed. Fascinating, the hubris of the leadership at twitter to think they knew better than their users
I will never forgive twitter for this catch and kill of a platform so full of life
Perhaps because they already had Periscope that no one used. It was a "buy competitor to kill it" play that didn't have the desired effect.
Amusingly Periscope was their clone of Meerkat which was briefly popular before they killed it.
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I've thought about this too. Imagine all the drama the US government could've avoided if Vine had won over TikTok!
With Elon running it? He probably would have actively sold it to china.
In a world where Vine is as successful as TikTok ended up being, who’s to say they get to a point where selling to Musk even happens?
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Elon said they found the archived data and are going to relaunch it as an AI slop output for Grok, ala Sora 2 feed.
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