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Doesn't Twitter do the same thing as Vine now that Twitter does videos? I never got into Vine, but kind of assumed this would happen when Twitter bought Vine. S

Doesn't Twitter do the same thing as Vine now that Twitter does videos? I never got into Vine, but kind of assumed this would happen when Twitter bought Vine. Selling Vine outright would perhaps cause people to move to the new Vine instead of Twitter video, so this (to me) would seem like the best bet to keep Vine's users and migrate them to Twitter.

rm999 10y ago
If that's the reason, it just seems so... destructive to me. This is something I respect about Facebook: they are willing to cannibalize their own products (e.g. instagram vs facebook, whatsapp vs fb messenger) because they realize how mercurial and segmented internet users can be.
Shank 10y ago
Vine's primary differentiating factor was 6 second looping videos. While the Twitter platform certainly supports video, it doesn't have the kind of automatic, looping, addictive format that Vine was good for.
- lucideer 10y ago
  I think the issue might be that Boomerang has taken on Vine's role here, and is more suited on the back of close Instagram/Facebook integration, whereas Vine is quite separate from Twitter. Focusing on getting something like this into Twitter itself might be a better bet (though I suspect Facebook has it wrapped up for now).
firasd 10y ago
They should have integrated these things better though. Instagram photos are so tightly coupled with Facebook (basically cross-posts), meanwhile Periscope, Vine, etc are apparently external cards in Twitter. Consider that in Twitter you can actually tag a person in a photo but can you get a gallery of photos with that tag? I dunno. Easy wins that have been neglected by Twitter for a while.
vit05 10y ago
Periscope is live video, it is different. I think before kill vine, they could have used to test new discovery/search options that could end up in periscope and twitter. 5 millions people using daily is a great base to do that.

rm999 10y ago

If that's the reason, it just seems so... destructive to me. This is something I respect about Facebook: they are willing to cannibalize their own products (e.g. instagram vs facebook, whatsapp vs fb messenger) because they realize how mercurial and segmented internet users can be.

Shank 10y ago

Vine's primary differentiating factor was 6 second looping videos. While the Twitter platform certainly supports video, it doesn't have the kind of automatic, looping, addictive format that Vine was good for.

lucideer 10y ago
I think the issue might be that Boomerang has taken on Vine's role here, and is more suited on the back of close Instagram/Facebook integration, whereas Vine is quite separate from Twitter. Focusing on getting something like this into Twitter itself might be a better bet (though I suspect Facebook has it wrapped up for now).

firasd 10y ago

They should have integrated these things better though. Instagram photos are so tightly coupled with Facebook (basically cross-posts), meanwhile Periscope, Vine, etc are apparently external cards in Twitter. Consider that in Twitter you can actually tag a person in a photo but can you get a gallery of photos with that tag? I dunno. Easy wins that have been neglected by Twitter for a while.

vit05 10y ago

Periscope is live video, it is different. I think before kill vine, they could have used to test new discovery/search options that could end up in periscope and twitter. 5 millions people using daily is a great base to do that.