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100% this. Everyone else is trying to make a tiktok clone and bolt it on to a maze of existing, and in some cases very similar, social media offerings. TikTok w
by ok123456 4y ago
100% this. Everyone else is trying to make a tiktok clone and bolt it on to a maze of existing, and in some cases very similar, social media offerings. TikTok works because it's video only from the ground up.
- LesZedCB 4y agothen why didn't vine or snapchat or whatever other video first platform from yesteryear catch on as big too? clearly there's more to it than "it's simply video first"
- mgraczyk 4y agoThe fact that it's video first was necessary but not sufficient
- LesZedCB 4y agoyes thanks, that is much more clear
- shaunxcode 4y agovine did! twitter mothballed it.
- colinmhayes 4y agoTwitter mothballed it’s because it didn’t catch on like TikTok did.
- woweoe 4y agoVine was forced to intergrade into Twitter.
- ProfessorLayton 4y agosnap is not video first — yes it supports video, but it supports pictures just as well or better since they integrate into chats. vine was literally killed by twitter.
- yieldcrv 4y agovine did snapchat isn't the same they both had implementation differences and primarily execution differences that had little to do with their platform, and more so finances its not just video, its video+algorithm, its video+algorithm+content-subsidies a lot of popular content creators on TikTok are still from the vine days, getting paid a lot more directly by the platforms now, as well as from whatever they can monetize on and off the platform. Bytedance (TikTok) is willing to throw a lot of money at this, and they've been extremely high on compensation for engineers for years before TikTok reached critical mass.