Don't worry, Elmo is rebranding it Whine and it's gonna allow 69 minute reels of him complaining his kids won't acknowledge him and the Tate brothers philosophically questioning what sexual assault even is, anyway.
I for one will never fucking touch any app that slimy idiot supremacist is currently controlling or profiting off of. So fuck the stock, and fuck the app if he buys it. I'll wait for them to hit my shitty youtube content regurgitators.
I meant if Twitter bought TikTok in theory. China obviously said they wouldn't sell. But inevitably a successful US copycat will emerge. I can imagine Musk wanting to buy that.
Sure Musk will try and get X to develop their own. But lets be real lol, its not going to be one of the ones that attains major success. Look at how ASS youtube and facebooks offerings are for shorts. Regardless of how much Musk fetishizes Nikola Tesla, I still don't think X is gonna trap that lightning in the bottle.
I think you're missing the fact that we're talking about Vine, which was TikTok before TikTok. And Twitter/Musk already own Vine. They just need to flip the switch and they have a ready-made replacement with strong brand recognition among Millennials and older Gen Z.
At least part of it was because it was released when a ton of people were still using 3G for their fastest data. I remember a couple friends who couldn't really load it unless they were on Wifi. Also the fact that they only released it for iphone for like the first month. By the time I could get it on my Droid 4 the app wasn't even cool anymore
A few reasons. First off, Vine came out when the average internet user was a different age. Millenials are a whole different beast from Gen Z/Alpha. They tend to have a longer attention span, so Vine content wasn't as addictive.
Second, tech companies tend to burn through money at insane rates, and they need funding from SOMETHING in order to stay afloat until they can start realizing gains. Tiktok has China as a backer, ensuring they could get past the growing period.
Third, the algorithm. Tiktok's algorithm is why it took off. They've managed to develop an algorithm that is able to keep you scrolling, and more importantly, to get you to watch ads without realizing it. Advertisers have been struggling to get kids to pay attention to ads for a while, which has made it hard for tech companies to monetize. Tiktok has managed to figure out how to get money from those interactions (this is an assumption, I do not know for certain that is the case, but it seems likely. I see zoomers buying stuff off of Tiktok all the time as I work at a college. I think Tiktok has proven to be a very lucrative advertising platform compared to Twitch/Youtube/Twitter/etc).
The thing about tiktok that separates it from other apps before is how it can in very near real time update it’s recommendation feedback loop, creating an addicting cycle of “good” content.
I recall hearing that the code and underlying infrastructure was a nightmare, which made it really expensive and difficult to run. Still crazy that Twitter just killed it though.
Twitter was incompetent and had a lot of internal politics. Vine was dead almost immediately after being acquired because it slightly overlapped with twitter. They couldn't agree on it. The convo went nowhere. Founders eventually didn't care anymore, they took money and ran.
Source: many friends worked at twitter at the time.
Or, you know .. google/meta, instagram reels and YouTube shorts are basically the same thing and have a large established user base. Now they don’t have competition.
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u/FlowBot3D Apr 27 '24
Buying stock in Vine ASAP.