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Ironic how everything you create these days has to mobile ready huh? Then here's a company dumping a pretty popular app which is used mainly by a younger demographic who lives by their phones and social media?
I don't see this as a good move - and if its being done to cut costs, it's still not a good move.
I always thought the main Vine user base was mobile users. That's the only place I've ever used it - which isn't much tbh. Ironic how everything you create these days has to mobile ready huh? Then here's a company dumping a pretty popular app which is used mainly by a younger demographic who lives by their phones and social media? I don't see this as a good move - and if its being done to cut costs, it's still not a…
Never used Vine, and the videos from it never worked on my browser, but this is truly shocking. Like, Google Reader shutdown level shocking. Twitter is seriously clueless if they weren't able to make any use of such a popular service. Especially when Periscope is still running somehow. Though it's only a matter of time for that too now.
I'm not suggesting Vine was superseded per se, as its users were generating a ton of content even to this moment, but at least from my perspective it seems its main users have had suitable alternatives available to them for a while.
It's probably a pretty awesome code base
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I believe Instagram uses Django https://engineering.instagram.com/web-service-efficiency-at-... In any case it's still a pretty popular site/app on it's own. I don't see Facebook killing it anytime soon.
No, I'm talking about Vine. They use Flask, and if they are not going to use the codebase any longer... Personally I like having a big codebase as an architectural reference when I'm trying to learn a new framework. The Patreon source code (Flask too) is public, by the way.
Never used Vine, and the videos from it never worked on my browser, but this is truly shocking. Like, Google Reader shutdown level shocking. Twitter is seriously clueless if they weren't able to make any use of such a popular service. Especially when Periscope is still running somehow. Though it's only a matter of time for that too now.
Shocking, shocking I say!
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Periscope may stick around for a while only because of the current obsession with live video. As soon as Facebook gives up on live (or at least stops focusing so much on it), Twitter will follow suit and fold up Periscope. If I were an engineer on that team, I'd do some proactive job hunting.
Looks pretty clear that Facebook and Twitter are all-in on live video for the medium to long term. Twitter even has live broadcasting deals with NFL, MLB and NBA.
What a shame. Twitter has a unique position as a key point in culture and media. It's played key roles in BLM and the Arab Spring. It astounds me that they couldn't focus in on that and make revenue from that reliable core of people that, like me, turn to Twitter before anywhere else when something is happening. But I guess that didn't raise growth numbers, and that's what Wall Street wants to see. So instead they're…
Yes, Twitter's role in BLM and Arab spring were invaluable contributions to history, but how much did they really add to the bottom line?
Even if it was a significant chunk, how much can random external events like that be relied on to provide recurring revenue in the future?