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If X ne Twitter knew what they were doing, now would have been the obvious moment to relaunch Vine.
by donatj 2y ago
If X ne Twitter knew what they were doing, now would have been the obvious moment to relaunch Vine.
- GaryNumanVevo 2y agoI doubt they have the engineering experience to launch anything at this point. They try to do a weird tiktok like thing where watching a video on mobile will randomly scroll to another video, but I think this probably has more to do with juicing "unregretted user seconds" than anything.
- 93po 2y ago[flagged]
- jonathantf2 2y agoStill can't fix the fact that videos randomly pause every 2 seconds though
- rvz 2y agoBut the parent comment is still correct. X have been launching much more features quicker than before. They have the capital and resources to re-launch Vine if they wanted to. In fact this is the perfect time for them to launch it.
- 93po 2y agoive never seen this, is it because you're scrolling? they stop when you scroll away
- jonathantf2 2y agoNope, on desktop on multiple computers or mobile iOS videos just seem to pause randomly with no inputs
- square_usual 2y agoNope. On desktop the video player is simply broken for me and will randomly loop halfway through the video or just stop.
- mempko 2y agoI just opened a new twitter account as an experiment. What features are you talking about? Nothing is obviously new. Also seems much more buggy than I remember.
- 93po 2y agohttps://x.com/x https://x.com/x
- paxys 2y agoLike?
- 93po 2y agoliterally weekly updates on what they launch/release: https://x.com/x https://x.com/x
- VyseofArcadia 2y agoI've been wondering for the past couple of years, why did Vine fail but TikTok succeed? Based on my increasingly fuzzy memories of Vine and my rough understanding of TikTok as a non-user, they appear to be pretty much the same app.
- modeless 2y agoSeems to me like they just gave up?
- NegativeLatency 2y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/28/extremely-online-vine-secret-meeting/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/28/extreme...
- donatj 2y agoVines were limited to six seconds, so the medium was a little different. That seems easy enough to change however.
- paxys 2y agoThe precursor to TikTik (Musical.ly) "failed" as well. I think it's because while apps of that era were able to achieve the viral moment, they failed to convert that into advertising and sponsorship $$$. TikTok, Instagram etc. have perfected that pipeline.
- MarkMarine 2y agoTikTok’s algorithm for the feed and their data science and recommenders are pretty amazing. You can tune it to show you what you like really quickly and it’s effective. Mine is tuned to old house preservation and restoration, a couple guys doing skits as blue collar workers that are some of the funniest parts of my day, motocross videos, and some dog/animal content. I’ve never liked a video or commented on a video, it’s just so effective using dwell time and they have so much data that they can give you exactly what you want and little that you don’t. There is no politics on my feed. I challenge you to get that with twitter, reels, threads, Facebook, vine… any of them