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Yes, users on TikTok are loyal, at the very least creators are. I haven't heard of any creators, at least none that I follow, moving to Instagram's competing of
by nxc18 6y ago
Yes, users on TikTok are loyal, at the very least creators are. I haven't heard of any creators, at least none that I follow, moving to Instagram's competing offering.
I think there may also be a sense of broad injustice that makes people more loyal to the offering. The President's actions have laid bare the reality that this is just a smash and grab on behalf of US interests, and not based in any actual national security concern, painting him and the US government as dishonest and corrupt.
There are claims we did similar things in the Middle East, interfering under false pretenses to get oil, and it turns out in 2020 that approach is unpopular to the general public, even if it is 'in the US interest'.
- actuator 6y agoBut creators can always be enticed with money, after all isn't that why most of them are there. The way he is going about this is definitely thuggish, he would have probably earned more fans by not forcing a sale and instead using alternatives to stifle it.
- throw_away 6y agoMicrosoft tried the build-a-competitor-then-pay-creators approach with Mixer vs Twitch and then shut it down less than a year later: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-closes-mixer-partners-with-facebook-2020-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-closes-mixer-partn...