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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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