Bring Back Vine?

Re:Bring Back Vine? by bluehorseray on Sunday October 30, 2022 @11:33PM (#33401785)

I totally forgot Twitter bought Vine. This is interesting, I've always thought the US never banned TikTok partially because it's so popular. If Musk does bring Vine back and successfully competes with Tiktok, maybe the gov will help him out and ban it.

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Re:Bring Back Vine? by systemvoltage on Sunday October 30, 2022 @11:37PM (#33401799)

I can't remember why they killed Vine, do you know what was specifically wrong with it? It had users and was getting popular.

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Re:Bring Back Vine? by bluehorseray on Sunday October 30, 2022 @11:40PM (#33401807)

I could be wrong, but I think Twitter was just about to introduce videos to the platform and saw Vine as a competitor. So they shut it down. I've always thought that was a pretty big mistake.

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Re:Bring Back Vine? by saurik on Monday October 31, 2022 @12:29AM (#33402090)

Twitter as an organization was honestly just incompetent. They also bought and then killed Periscope in late 2020 / early 2021... exactly as the world had started to embrace live video streaming as conferences and concerts started to capitulate and go fully online.

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