Bring Back Vine?

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12 points·systemvoltage··8 comments

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.

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

Edit: Found some more context

> By December 2015, Vine had over 200 million active users.[1] On October 27, 2016, Twitter announced that it would disable all uploads, but that viewing and download would continue to work.

> The discontinuation of Vine came as many different competing platforms began to introduce their own equivalents to Vine's short-form video approach.

This is just astonishing.

Src https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_(service)

Twitter as an organization was honestly just incompetent. They also bought (in 2015) 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.

Guys do you really need to post each of this guy's tweets onto here? That's just Twitter...

This is particularly interesting as it could become a competitor to Tiktok.

The bots Elon spoke off are very active in the threads atm. There are a couple of fake crypto giveaways and some porn bots in the replies.

It'll end up being a TikTok mirror, just like YouTube Shorts

Vine died because Twitter demography is more politics than creativity

sorry can't resist so it would become "old vine in a new bottle" :-)

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