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It was more focused on lip syncing, from their purchase of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical.ly

Vine was pretty limited and never really evolved much beyond its earliest implementation. TikTok has powerful editing, remixing, and a very good recommendation engine that Vine never had.

Tik tok is only a vine clone if Reddit is a Twitter clone. They operate completely differently and had very different starting points.

Comparing Reddit to Twitter is bad. But saying TikTok is a vine Clone like Reddit is a Digg clone is a pretty good analogy though.

Tik tok and vine have and had nothing of substance alike.