Of course they did. Powerjannies have no backbone except to powertrip on the only thing they have in their pathetic little lives, Reddit.
Also lmao Reddit won a phyrric victory at best
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Of course they did. Powerjannies have no backbone except to powertrip on the only thing they have in their pathetic little lives, Reddit.
Also lmao Reddit won a phyrric victory at best
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Meanwhile, Threads lost 80% of its users already. Cuckerberg BTFO.
Competing with established social platforms is borderline impossible without a new hook (e.g. TikTok).
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TikTok might not have caught on if Twitter hadn't killed Vine.
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why did they kill off vine in the first place? it was really popular with zoomers
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It literally couldn't be monetized fast enough. They couldn't figure out how to fit ads in and sponsored content and “influencer brand deals” weren't as ingrained in marketing culture yet so all of the talent left to YouTube because vine wouldn't pay them.
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they wanted to gentrify it
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I'm being sincere here. What the frick does this comment mean? How does one gentrify a short-form video app?
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vine felt like 2008 youtube skits. Potato cameras, crappy windows movie maker -esque video edits, and a lot of kids/young adults were just chilling and relaxin all good. After seeing the potential in that sample size they went and devised a clone but with way more telemetry. Obviously Vine was superior so it got purchased, cremated, and in its place there was ( ✓ ) with a bunch of low effort shitposts with the same chinese wheezing laughtrack in the back as though the person watching was dying of laughter. ( ✓ ) is marketed to any living creature with a soul and a phone. Vine was marketed to ur friend who was bored and wanted to see what funny vids people were making for the lulz.
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Such a mayo thing to say
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They must have gone through a bad financial period, because I doubt they acquired it with the intention of killing it. They were probably bleeding even more money than they usually are and had to cut something.
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Because those little short videos are like dynamite to a subsection of the population that just see them and tee off immediately, they like, compulsively copy what they see on the screen or immediately trigger-forward it to all of their friends.
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But they promised that Musk was finished this time!
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Zuck had one chance to grab people away from Musk and he blew it. Twitter scores 4.6/5 at the Apple store, while Threads only has 3.7/5 which is over 3x as bad.
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How could zuck have won ?
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At least wait until the features are more complete before bringing it to market. Also, take off enough snooping to allow it in Europe, and stop tying the account to Instagram.
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The biggest reason why the alternatives fail is because the majority of users aren't unhappy enough with the current platform to jump to a new one. The vast majority of twitter users don't give two shits about Elon one way or the other. As long as they can still use twitter just as they always have they will be happy to keep using it. If twitter's functionality goes to shit then people will gladly jump over to a clone.
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but twitter is the death spiraling platform
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Say what you want and Musk (and I do) but Twitter is a more fun platform since he took over. It's bugged all to frick but it's more fun
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How is it more fun?
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I can get away with a lot more (moderation is all bots so easy to bypass) and now that all the rightoids are back there's a lot more bantz.
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I miss all the leftoids sperging out everywhere. Rocket daddy did a lot to actively drive people away. All he really needed to do was ease up on jannying. Community notes is a good idea though.
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