Fun fact that I’ll shorten: (vine creators) all met at 1600 Vine in Los Angeles with Twitter execs. Creators asked Twitter for money because _we_ we’re getting offers by competitors to become exclusive to their platform, Twitter denied paying up, and all creators moved to other platforms. It only took a few months for the user base to die out.
Re:Vine founder launches TikTok competitor
by aty268 on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:14PM
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Huh that is a fun fact. Crazy how one bad decision can just destroy your company.
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Re:Vine founder launches TikTok competitor
by aty268 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @12:02AM
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It is a bad decision, I don't see your point.
Re:Vine founder launches TikTok competitor
by dimgl on Saturday January 25, 2020 @12:27AM
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It isn't just one bad decision. It's many decisions. Those decisions don't just come out of "thin air" and destroy the company. They're always a series of decisions which eventually topple over the company. Vine not paying their content creators wasn't just the one time; they were likely consciously not paying their content creators over a long period of time.
Also, a lot of the popular viners wanted to be paid in some way, and they didn't really have a clear way for that to happen, so the creators pulled out and it died.
TikTok just did it better. Creators can easily get paid, videos are not forced to be 6 second max, and they executed better.