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Dom Hofmann, one of the cofounders of Vine launched Byte which is basically a new Vine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_(app) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B
by gman83 6y ago
Dom Hofmann, one of the cofounders of Vine launched Byte which is basically a new Vine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_(app) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_(app). I don't know if it's catching on though. I guess if TikTok does get banned we'll see a mass migration somewhere.
- iamcreasy 6y agoI don't keep up with the new social media - but I am wondering why TikTok succeeded where Vine failed?
- canada2020 6y agoBetter recommendation engine
- amelius 6y agoOr actual people doing the recommendation?
- umeshunni 6y agoI also think 30 seconds is just long enough to tell a meaningful story rather than Vine's 6 seconds which was only useful for short-form comedy.
- adjkant 6y agoAnd note it's 60 seconds, so even more so
- timemct 6y agoVine launched in 2012. There probably wasn't a critical mass of mobile phone owners, specifically teens, at that time. The iPhone hit the market only five years earlier.
- Bayart 6y agoI haven't tried it but everybody says TikTok's magic ingredient is the AI behind recommendations.
- notatoad 6y agoThe music licenses are a big deal - you can put actual popular music in your tiktoks and not have to worry about it being taken down.
- ksec 6y agoIs the 30 Second rule applicable World Wide? Just wondering.
- someelephant 6y agoIt's difficult to understand why Microsoft wouldn't buy this. With some clever marketing I'm sure they could grow the username rapidly and it would cost less than 1% of whatever TikTok would cost.
- ffk 6y agoThey tried, but apparently the sale was blocked due to AI export control laws in China.
- changoplatanero 6y agoi think he means why didn't they buy the rights to the name "vine"
- jonas21 6y agoWhy? The hard part isn't building a Vine or TikTok clone. It's getting 800M people to come and use it.
- cercatrova 6y agoReally depends. They made and then shut down Mixer, their Twitch competitor, because no one was using it.
- DLay 6y agoBytedance paid $1 billion in advertisements in 2018. Anyone remember how annoying and ubiquitous their ads were? That was on top of purchasing Musically for $800m, partially for their existing U.S. user base.
- m-p-3 6y agoThere's also Google launching YouTube Shorts, but who knows when they'll send it to Google Graveyard.
- londons_explore 6y agoGoogle Graveyard is in maintainance mode, and is not accepting new burials I'm afraid.
- axaxs 6y agoThey could not have picked a worse name. No kid is gonna say 'find me on shorts.'
- dzhiurgis 6y agoMaybe some kid with 10 years of C++, kubernetes and tensorflow experience will
- est 6y ago> I guess if TikTok does get banned we'll see a mass migration somewhere. Mass migration to Canada Tiktok.