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Makes sense, Instagram has essentially beat them at their own game.

by knowaveragejoe 10y ago

beedogs 10y ago
What game is that? "Collecting zero revenue until you're somehow bought by Facebook"?
- deleted 10y ago
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- awad 10y ago
  Well, despite the fact that both companies were acquired by larger social companies... "Instagram will surpass Google, Twitter in US mobile display ad revenues by 2017" http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Instagram-Mobile-Ad-Revenues-Reach-281-Billion-Worldwide-2017/1012774#sthash.hhuGqYyb.dpuf http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Instagram-Mobile-Ad-Revenue...
- knowaveragejoe 10y ago
  The short video game. Literally the only thing Vine does.
terda12 10y ago
Instagram has more everyday users. Think about me, the average dude. I have 100 followers on Instagram, most of whom are from high school/college. I have zero followers on Vine. Unless I dedicate my life to making funny Vines, I probably won't get any followers. Whoa, now Instagram has pushed a video feature, great! Now I can share "vines" with my 100 followers. No need to download Vine after all. Not to mention a lot of the funny vines get posted onto a youtube compilation anyways, so in the end youtube is profiting from vine's success. Vine's business model was just doomed to fail.
raverbashing 10y ago
Instagram remade vine 100x better Every time I click a vine video it takes ages to load. I can't remember a similar service with a crappier user experience The Vine app lasted less than a week on my phone, because it was pretty much unusable. Yes, please, let me play a series of videos with sound while scrolling.
- otisfunkmeyer 10y ago
  the only app that has a worse UX than vine is... wait for it... periscope! Half the time periscope videos won't even load for me over the web. No matter how long I wait. Twitter Co.'s infrastructure seems to have only ever gotten marginally better since the fail whale days!
  - intoverflow2 10y ago
    My only experience with Periscope was clicking a link at the top of my twitter feed and seeing "This broadcast has already ended".
- knowaveragejoe 10y ago
  That and the 6 second limit is totally arbitrary. The fact that you can have longer videos on Instagram(but not, say, multiple minutes long) is killer.

Makes sense, Instagram has essentially beat them at their own game.

beedogs 10y ago

What game is that? "Collecting zero revenue until you're somehow bought by Facebook"?

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awad 10y ago
Well, despite the fact that both companies were acquired by larger social companies... "Instagram will surpass Google, Twitter in US mobile display ad revenues by 2017" http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Instagram-Mobile-Ad-Revenues-Reach-281-Billion-Worldwide-2017/1012774#sthash.hhuGqYyb.dpuf http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Instagram-Mobile-Ad-Revenue...
knowaveragejoe 10y ago
The short video game. Literally the only thing Vine does.

terda12 10y ago

Instagram has more everyday users. Think about me, the average dude. I have 100 followers on Instagram, most of whom are from high school/college. I have zero followers on Vine. Unless I dedicate my life to making funny Vines, I probably won't get any followers. Whoa, now Instagram has pushed a video feature, great! Now I can share "vines" with my 100 followers. No need to download Vine after all. Not to mention a lot of the funny vines get posted onto a youtube compilation anyways, so in the end youtube is profiting from vine's success. Vine's business model was just doomed to fail.

raverbashing 10y ago

Instagram remade vine 100x better Every time I click a vine video it takes ages to load. I can't remember a similar service with a crappier user experience The Vine app lasted less than a week on my phone, because it was pretty much unusable. Yes, please, let me play a series of videos with sound while scrolling.

otisfunkmeyer 10y ago
the only app that has a worse UX than vine is... wait for it... periscope! Half the time periscope videos won't even load for me over the web. No matter how long I wait. Twitter Co.'s infrastructure seems to have only ever gotten marginally better since the fail whale days!
- intoverflow2 10y ago
  My only experience with Periscope was clicking a link at the top of my twitter feed and seeing "This broadcast has already ended".
knowaveragejoe 10y ago
That and the 6 second limit is totally arbitrary. The fact that you can have longer videos on Instagram(but not, say, multiple minutes long) is killer.