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Vine. It was already pretty big back in 2013 but Twitter had no idea what to do with it. TikTok actually launched just a few months before Vine was shut down an

Vine. It was already pretty big back in 2013 but Twitter had no idea what to do with it. TikTok actually launched just a few months before Vine was shut down and erased from the internet.

joshdavham 1y ago
I've thought about this too. Imagine all the drama the US government could've avoided if Vine had won over TikTok!
- lazyasciiart 1y ago
  With Elon running it? He probably would have actively sold it to china.
  - geoffpado 1y ago
    In a world where Vine is as successful as TikTok ended up being, who’s to say they get to a point where selling to Musk even happens?
    - quinndexter 1y ago
      guys when you invent fictional alternate realities, you're allowed to leave people out of them completely. Anyone you like.
geor9e 1y ago
I will never forgive twitter for this catch and kill of a platform so full of life
- burnt-resistor 1y ago
  Perhaps because they already had Periscope that no one used. It was a "buy competitor to kill it" play that didn't have the desired effect.
  - tdeck 1y ago
    Amusingly Periscope was their clone of Meerkat which was briefly popular before they killed it.
    - heylook 1y ago
      Periscope was in closed beta when Meerkat launched. Neither was a clone of the other. Just two teams with the same idea at the same time.
bapak 1y ago
Whoever took the decision to kill Vine was an absolute moron, even without hindsight. It was square videos, how hard could it have been to shove an ads banner above it and call it a day? Incredible
- saurik 1y ago
  They also killed Periscope right as the explosion of streaming online video happened... Twitter has always been pretty incompetent.
- edent 1y ago
  There's an excellent write up at https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/28/extremely-online-vine-secret-meeting/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/28/extreme...
  - bazmattaz 1y ago
    That is so fascinating. They completely ignored their most most valuable users and thus the users left and the site collapsed. Fascinating, the hubris of the leadership at twitter to think they knew better than their users
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NedF 1y ago
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qingcharles 1y ago
Elon said they found the archived data and are going to relaunch it as an AI slop output for Grok, ala Sora 2 feed.

Vine. It was already pretty big back in 2013 but Twitter had no idea what to do with it. TikTok actually launched just a few months before Vine was shut down and erased from the internet.

joshdavham 1y ago

I've thought about this too. Imagine all the drama the US government could've avoided if Vine had won over TikTok!

lazyasciiart 1y ago
With Elon running it? He probably would have actively sold it to china.
- geoffpado 1y ago
  In a world where Vine is as successful as TikTok ended up being, who’s to say they get to a point where selling to Musk even happens?
  - quinndexter 1y ago
    guys when you invent fictional alternate realities, you're allowed to leave people out of them completely. Anyone you like.

geor9e 1y ago

I will never forgive twitter for this catch and kill of a platform so full of life

burnt-resistor 1y ago
Perhaps because they already had Periscope that no one used. It was a "buy competitor to kill it" play that didn't have the desired effect.
- tdeck 1y ago
  Amusingly Periscope was their clone of Meerkat which was briefly popular before they killed it.
  - heylook 1y ago
    Periscope was in closed beta when Meerkat launched. Neither was a clone of the other. Just two teams with the same idea at the same time.

bapak 1y ago

Whoever took the decision to kill Vine was an absolute moron, even without hindsight. It was square videos, how hard could it have been to shove an ads banner above it and call it a day? Incredible

saurik 1y ago
They also killed Periscope right as the explosion of streaming online video happened... Twitter has always been pretty incompetent.
edent 1y ago
There's an excellent write up at https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/28/extremely-online-vine-secret-meeting/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/28/extreme...
- bazmattaz 1y ago
  That is so fascinating. They completely ignored their most most valuable users and thus the users left and the site collapsed. Fascinating, the hubris of the leadership at twitter to think they knew better than their users

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NedF 1y ago

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qingcharles 1y ago

Elon said they found the archived data and are going to relaunch it as an AI slop output for Grok, ala Sora 2 feed.