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Teens are attracted to Twitter, Instagram and Vine. They like these mini social network where they could gain followers by posing interesting tweets or photos o
by yeukhon 13y ago
Teens are attracted to Twitter, Instagram and Vine. They like these mini social network where they could gain followers by posing interesting tweets or photos or videos.
Youtube's top celerity usually started their channels when they were teen (high school, freshman). Certainly getting your channel popular now is harder, so the best way to get attention is either by posting photos or posting a 6-second videos.
Vine and Instavideos took the spike. Kids are spending more time watching videos and looking at photos than reading statuses.
Ironically, IMO, Vine and instavideos took off partly because people could publish to FB and Twitter. I spend most of my FB time either reading memes or vine videos. i don't pay much attention to status anymore.
- XorNot 13y agoVines is going to crash hard suddenly IMO. At it's core it's just not versatile enough for anyone to actually try and become "popular" from Vines videos - what you do their, you can do on YouTube as well, but with more versatility. You can't do much with 5 second videos as a limit - but the 5 second movie/10 second movie etc. was a format that people were using on YouTube well before Vines.
- yeukhon 13y agoMaybe. I think there is a value running a 5-10 seconds show. It's supposed to be funny, capturing attention. Youtube to me and possibly to many people is formal, it's a website you go to for a full talk. You would watch a 5 minutes show instead. This is why you don't blog on twitter. You write status and you chat and that's "blog" for some people. Since vine is a twitter company, I am sure twitter is trying to monetize it.
- XorNot 13y ago5 seconds is about how long it took to read this sentence and move your eyes to the next one. The problem is, a video, unlike a picture, or indeed - text, doesn't linger on a frame naturally. Your example seems to support my point more then undermine it too - you mention 5 minutes. Not 5 seconds. 5 minutes is a lot of content's length on YouTube. Its not remotely possible on Vine.
- laichzeit0 13y agoI noticed this as well. Personally I feel that twitter/instagram/vine is more informal and disposable. Facebook and its albums, status, friend lists, etc., it's all so formal to the point of being old-fashioned. It feels like the current zeitgeist is not to give a crap about anything older than a few hours. Instagram feels like it's only about about making "now" look cool, hash-tagging it and then forgetting about it. Vine gives you a few seconds of entertainment, about the threshold at when boredom kicks in. Honestly about 99.999% of the time I never re-read a tweet, look at the same instagram or vine. It's disposable social media. Facebook feels like the exact opposite.
- FkZ 13y agoI think that's probably a large reason along with two others: They're more content focused. Twitter is about what people write, Instagram is about the pictures people take. Facebook is about... the network? Facebook is more muddled, and clarity is valued today. Asymmetry. Yes, I know you can "like" things and get updates and you can join groups, but ultimately the relationship between two users on Facebook has to be agreed to by both.
- klipt 13y ago> It's disposable social media. Or so they think ... until one of those kids grows up, runs for office, and the press digs through their twitter archive to dig up evidence of teenage bad decisions.