Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera...
by slipheen on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:12PM
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Fair enough, I suppose it depends on how broad your categories are.
Personally, I absolutely consider YouTube a video-based social network.
You follow people/brands, have at timeline, can contribute comments on what they post, etc.
It doesn't tend to have as broad a social graph as something like FB, but almost nothing does.
Twitter (for example) also has a large number of popular public accounts, similar to YouTube.
Re:Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US opera...
by sanxiyn on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:22PM
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Facebook and Twitter mostly do not subsidize content creation, but YouTube and TikTok definitely do. That's why I think TikTok will have more staying power.
Personally, I absolutely consider YouTube a video-based social network. You follow people/brands, have at timeline, can contribute comments on what they post, etc.
It doesn't tend to have as broad a social graph as something like FB, but almost nothing does. Twitter (for example) also has a large number of popular public accounts, similar to YouTube.