Vine had real traction, why did Twitter kill it?
So Twitter shut down Vine."
(also cites https://www.mic.com/articles/157977/inside-the-secret-meetin... )
Like all union-busting actions, the purpose of this was not simple financial maximisation but showing who was in charge.
[citation needed], this sounds like outrage porn for a certain kind of person.
Those creators could choose to stop creating content and Vine would still have lots of other creators. It's not like the site would've stopped functioning without the few unionists.
There is even a 2012 New York Times article: "A Master of Improv, Writing Twitter’s Script" [2]
I always wonder how media portraits an alternate reality where people and organization behaves as if they were living within The Truman Show [3]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Costolo
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/technology/dick-costolo-o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringling_Bros._and_Barnum_%26_...
shudders
Improv is a fantastic tool that I recommend to everyone. The basic concept of Yes, and… makes a huge difference from an emotional intelligence perspective.
No idea what they wanted, no idea where they wanted to go to, and no idea on how to use what they had.