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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by theprincess on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:15PM (#33376201)
It wasn't that early. YouTube was, and still is, full of vine compilations. It really blew up for a while just serving 6 second videos at a low/moderate resolution. It could have been TikTok easily.
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by skohan on Friday October 28, 2022 @04:23PM (#33377380)
People make that comparison, but the secret sauce of TikTok is letting users score their content with high quality copyrighted music.
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by theprincess on Friday October 28, 2022 @04:30PM (#33377478)
That's a great point tbqh. Had vine lived I'm guessing they would have had to play catch up with that feature and who knows maybe they would have been too late.
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