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Just like how Apple killed Tumblr for porn problems but gave Twitter a pass

notaustinpowers 3y ago
From what I understand is was more because Tumblr had a much younger user demographic with very ineffective content reporting tools. Allowed NSFW content without a desktop opt-in function. And also being bought by Yahoo who wanted to cash in on Tumblr advertising probably played a huge role in it too. Twitter skews older, requires desktop opt-in for NSFW content, and (before Musk) had decent content reporting functions.
- tumult 3y ago
  Do you have any information about this? Where did you hear this? I'd always heard it was because some people at Apple used Twitter, but nobody used Tumblr, so Tumblr didn't get a free pass from arbitrary torment.
  - lalopalota 3y ago
    Do you have any information about this? Where did you hear this?
    - tumult 3y ago
      From news links and comments here on this site, especially around 2018 when Tumblr was going through repeated App Store rejections. I think people, including myself, infer it from this information: 1. Apple executives like Phil Schiller used Twitter for years. 2. Apple bought advertising on Twitter. 3. https://sreegs.tumblr.com/post/671649355334336512/alright-lets-talk-about-apple-and-tumblrs https://sreegs.tumblr.com/post/671649355334336512/alright-le...
  - notaustinpowers 3y ago
    No sourcable information on it. More so just experience and mumblings around Tumblr since I've been on there since 2011.
numpad0 3y ago
This is just me rambling but I think there's a simple explanation to Tumblr, Twitter and WeChat: Tumblr was a global app with English speaking userbase. Twitter and WeChat are de facto country-specific apps that Apple has no clear pictures on. The latter two are "big in ___" apps that are hardly known anywhere else, namely SA, Japan, and China, to which anything HQ in California do will only cause unpredictable and unobservable, likely negative financial impacts. I'm from "Asia" but all I know about WeChat is about as much as that it's a brand with a logo, that's it. Apple et al allows maximum leniency, budget and local decisions for those local apps because of that. "No one's using it anyway", only cash is coming in, so whatever happens there won't matter anyway, as long as the gig won't stop. Hell, if they need datacenter for all data to stay in China, so be it, if they need extra rapid payments to keep Shinjuku going, so be it. Tumblr is different; they have US users and negative impacts can be readily measured. So they - its owner Yahoo! US at the time of its death - were not scared to do whatever.
NikkiA 3y ago
Twitter banned (female only) nipples. The fact there is porn on twitter is largely 'despite the rules'

From what I understand is was more because Tumblr had a much younger user demographic with very ineffective content reporting tools. Allowed NSFW content without a desktop opt-in function. And also being bought by Yahoo who wanted to cash in on Tumblr advertising probably played a huge role in it too. Twitter skews older, requires desktop opt-in for NSFW content, and (before Musk) had decent content reporting functions.

tumult 3y ago
Do you have any information about this? Where did you hear this? I'd always heard it was because some people at Apple used Twitter, but nobody used Tumblr, so Tumblr didn't get a free pass from arbitrary torment.
- lalopalota 3y ago
  Do you have any information about this? Where did you hear this?
  - tumult 3y ago
    From news links and comments here on this site, especially around 2018 when Tumblr was going through repeated App Store rejections. I think people, including myself, infer it from this information: 1. Apple executives like Phil Schiller used Twitter for years. 2. Apple bought advertising on Twitter. 3. https://sreegs.tumblr.com/post/671649355334336512/alright-lets-talk-about-apple-and-tumblrs https://sreegs.tumblr.com/post/671649355334336512/alright-le...
- notaustinpowers 3y ago
  No sourcable information on it. More so just experience and mumblings around Tumblr since I've been on there since 2011.

numpad0 3y ago

This is just me rambling but I think there's a simple explanation to Tumblr, Twitter and WeChat: Tumblr was a global app with English speaking userbase. Twitter and WeChat are de facto country-specific apps that Apple has no clear pictures on. The latter two are "big in ___" apps that are hardly known anywhere else, namely SA, Japan, and China, to which anything HQ in California do will only cause unpredictable and unobservable, likely negative financial impacts. I'm from "Asia" but all I know about WeChat is about as much as that it's a brand with a logo, that's it. Apple et al allows maximum leniency, budget and local decisions for those local apps because of that. "No one's using it anyway", only cash is coming in, so whatever happens there won't matter anyway, as long as the gig won't stop. Hell, if they need datacenter for all data to stay in China, so be it, if they need extra rapid payments to keep Shinjuku going, so be it. Tumblr is different; they have US users and negative impacts can be readily measured. So they - its owner Yahoo! US at the time of its death - were not scared to do whatever.

NikkiA 3y ago

Twitter banned (female only) nipples. The fact there is porn on twitter is largely 'despite the rules'