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"Twitter supports videos now, therefore Vine is redundant! Shut it down and 100% of Vine users will post their videos on Twitter!" —Twitter PMs, probably
by warning26 4y ago
"Twitter supports videos now, therefore Vine is redundant! Shut it down and 100% of Vine users will post their videos on Twitter!"
—Twitter PMs, probably
- dmix 4y agoIf that's the rationale it has to be one of the worst tech product decisions in history. Out-doing even Googles collection of product shutdowns here.
- phillipcarter 4y agoI think it's a lot more likely that there are/were a horde of PMs there who thought it was a very dumb and short-sighted decision to shut it down at the time. In my experience, it's usually some high-ranking exec who makes confounding decisions through authority in big tech. Not so much the average IC PM who has to spend time understanding their users for their job.
- lupire 4y agoThe Vic Gundrota Google+ school of Product Management.
- RyanShook 4y agoThanks for the reminder. Yes, this was pretty much 100% the rationale from Twitter at the time.
- kragen 4y agoWhat was your position at Twitter at the time? I'm interested to know where you heard it from, to the extent that you can disclose.