Re:Twitter Blue for $8/Month
by threatofrain on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @06:32PM
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There's not enough "room" to produce interesting content solely on Twitter vs YouTube — you have to hiccup out your value in segmented tweet threads. Thus if Twitter does provide value to followers it is in referencing outside material. Elon is supposedly directing Twitter engineers to go full-steam on reviving Vine so we'll see if that can turn things around.
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Re:Twitter Blue for $8/Month
by Ar-Curunir on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @06:38PM
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The vine crowd has long moved to Tiktok; even IG and YT couldn’t steal mindshare from them. Vine has no chance, given that they’re starting with a 6yr old product
I don't know much about Vine, but anecdotally I have ended up spending way too much time on YouTube reels, and have also now been drawn into the equivalent on Facebook, whatever that's called, and I barely use FB. So I don't think the super short form video market is a winner takes all one by any means.
On the contrary there's plenty of room for genuine innovation in this space. For example FB short form videos don't have a dislike button, so I have no way to guide the algorithm, and YouTube reels seems to zero in on some local maximum (in my case, game of thrones and golf videos). There's so much room for improvement in this space.
> Vine has no chance, given that they’re starting with a 6yr old product
Unless the US government decides to ban TikTok which is a not so crazy possibility.
Re:Twitter Blue for $8/Month
by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @02:58AM
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> There’s not enough “room” to produce interesting content solely on Twitter
While I think that Musk’s plan is going to backfire, it is worth noting that he tries to address this in a narrow respect, in that paid users under the new plan would be able to distribute longer video/audio content with tweets.