Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by goalieca on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:32PM (#23794719)

You mean like vine? Twitter bought it and killed it. The founder moved on to launch Byte https://www.byte.co/

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Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by what_ever on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:38PM (#23794791)

Vine was different. I just posted this on another thread couple of days ago.

Vine was 6 second long video clips. Comparing Vine to TikTok is somewhat like comparing TikTok to YouTube videos. They are different.

Lot of TikTok popularity has come from offering songs/lip syncing functionality (done better by their acquisition of musica.ly). That wouldn't have worked on 6 second Vines.

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Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by JeremyNT on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:05PM (#23795795)

> Vine was 6 second long video clips. Comparing Vine to TikTok is somewhat like comparing TikTok to YouTube videos. They are different.

As an aside, it's insane to me that the differentiating feature of an entirely new video hosting platform can simply be the length of the content it supports.

The world of tech companies is truly bizarre. Why doesn't Google launch dozens of Youtube variants under their own branding with their own slightly different length restrictions to just dominate the market?

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Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by TheKarateKid on Saturday July 11, 2020 @02:09PM (#23804256)

It's more than just the length. TikTok has some pretty good and simple video editing features that make it very easy to quickly produce decent quality content on your phone.

The music integration was the biggest example of this, and probably why the lip-syncing/dancing videos became so popular on the platform.

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Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by manojlds on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:08PM (#23795110)

That's like saying Twitter is not Twitter because we can type more than 140 characters now.

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Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by Jtsummers on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:25PM (#23795309)

For the rest of us that don't follow social media systems closely (just looked up, I'm trusting my search results):

TikTok allows 15 second videos (only 2.5x the length of Vine videos) but also has a way to string multiple videos together for 60 seconds of play time (10x longer than Vine had).

So this is actually a pretty fair comparison (old Twitter @ 140 vs new Twitter @ 280) if you ignore stringing them together.

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Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by im3w1l-alt on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:43PM (#23795532)

It's not only about the mathematical factor. It's about which usecases are possible.

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Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by stordoff on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:06PM (#23798463)

My sister, who uses TikTok quite a lot, referred to TikTok earlier today as "The New Vine", leading me to suspect some portion of the user base is there for similar reasons/content and that there's enough overlap for it to not be a wholly useless comparison.

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Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by xxpor on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:29PM (#23795361)

>Byte

Which is different from ByteDance, which is the company that owns TikTok, for those confused like me.

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Re:Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was... by dvt on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:34PM (#23794743)

Vine was definitely the precursor to apps like TikTok, and I tried Byte but I didn't really like it (at least not as much as I do TikTok).

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