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If you think people are held back from tweeting by anxiety, how would you ever come to the conclusion that videos are the solution?

cratermoon 5y ago
Yeah this explanation smells. Reading between the lines, I'd say that twitter fell prey to a couple of bad predictions. The widely-maligned "pivot to video" that ended up being based on FB fudging the numbers for how much engagement video got, and the idea that duplicating the success of IG or TikTok is just about enabling 30 second video snippets.
- erehweb 5y ago
  Inflated FB video numbers have been known for a long while now - references to it in Sep 2016 https://www.facebook.com/business/news/facebook-video-metrics-update?mod=article_inline https://www.facebook.com/business/news/facebook-video-metric...
  - bogwog 5y ago
    The contrast on that text makes me feel like they don't want anyone to actually read it.
    - cratermoon 5y ago
      https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17989712/facebook-inaccurate-video-metrics-inflation-lawsuit https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17989712/facebook-inaccu...
- adolph 5y ago
  Vine was an American social networking short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long, looping video clips. It was founded in June 2012; American microblogging website Twitter acquired it in October 2012, before its official release on January 24, 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)
the_reformation 5y ago
I think the idea was the anxiety was that tweets aren't ephemeral enough.
LeoPanthera 5y ago
Fleets are not videos. They can include videos, optionally.
renewiltord 5y ago
What makes a fleet a fleet isn't a video, it's that it's transient. You can make a text fleet. Or could. If you've never used a fleet and have read the post, you can use the text from it "Most Fleets include media" to conclude that there exist fleets that do not include media. Video is a form of media. You can then conclude through pure syllogism that fleets do not require video.
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cratermoon 5y ago

Yeah this explanation smells. Reading between the lines, I'd say that twitter fell prey to a couple of bad predictions. The widely-maligned "pivot to video" that ended up being based on FB fudging the numbers for how much engagement video got, and the idea that duplicating the success of IG or TikTok is just about enabling 30 second video snippets.

erehweb 5y ago
Inflated FB video numbers have been known for a long while now - references to it in Sep 2016 https://www.facebook.com/business/news/facebook-video-metrics-update?mod=article_inline https://www.facebook.com/business/news/facebook-video-metric...
- bogwog 5y ago
  The contrast on that text makes me feel like they don't want anyone to actually read it.
  - cratermoon 5y ago
    https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17989712/facebook-inaccurate-video-metrics-inflation-lawsuit https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17989712/facebook-inaccu...
adolph 5y ago
Vine was an American social networking short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long, looping video clips. It was founded in June 2012; American microblogging website Twitter acquired it in October 2012, before its official release on January 24, 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)

the_reformation 5y ago

I think the idea was the anxiety was that tweets aren't ephemeral enough.

LeoPanthera 5y ago

Fleets are not videos. They can include videos, optionally.

renewiltord 5y ago

What makes a fleet a fleet isn't a video, it's that it's transient. You can make a text fleet. Or could. If you've never used a fleet and have read the post, you can use the text from it "Most Fleets include media" to conclude that there exist fleets that do not include media. Video is a form of media. You can then conclude through pure syllogism that fleets do not require video.

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