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TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram
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Re: TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram
#82One cannot simply compare total number of downloads (Tiktok) to number of monthly active users (Instagram) to make assertion that Tiktok may be as big as Instagram.
Re: TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram
#83Re: TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram
#84What amazes me is that Tik-Tok fills the void created when Twitter killed vine. Given the popularity of Vine, and the outrage when Twitter killed it, I have no idea why they thought it was a good move. I’m bullish on Tik-Tok because I think it’s the next logical evolution of social media (and totally captures the Vine fan base which was pretty big to begin with) First there was text, both Facebook and Twitter. Then i…
Vine was unnecessarily wrecked by Twitter's poor stewardship, and a fatal dispute with the community of stars who produced its top content: https://www.mic.com/articles/157977/inside-the-secret-meetin...
- pay creators
- deal with harassment
The two things, of course, that Twitter is totally incapable of doing. It's not clear how TikTok is responding to the same pressures.
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What are the issues that America is trying to push in Europe?
As a Canadian, random examples: Indifference to violence, hypocrisy on nudity, monetizing privacy (no respect for privacy), monetizing medical care. (I don't mean to start a flame war, but they are topics where EU and Canada tend to disagree with major US trends)
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are the issues that America is trying to push in Europe?
As a Canadian, random examples: Indifference to violence, hypocrisy on nudity, monetizing privacy (no respect for privacy), monetizing medical care. (I don't mean to start a flame war, but they are topics where EU and Canada tend to disagree with major US trends)
Major US trends, but are people shilling on Reddit to support them? That's an honest question, I don't really read Reddit. I know there are a lot of people in the US who honestly believe in, say, private healthcare, so a lot of the comments in support of it could be explained as coming from Americans expressing their opinions, as opposed to government or corporate agents pushing an agenda.
Re: TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram
#87Aight, conspiracy theory time. I'm becoming concerned about PRC influence in my country (USA). From my perspective the PRC (government) is blatantly evil, and happily engaging in cultural warfare, and nobody seems to be fighting back. I see absurd astroturfing and shilling on social media here (Reddit, Twitter, Facebook). It's always obvious - whereas a genuine criticizer of the Hong Kong protestors might ask about v…
Why is the PRC evil?
Re: TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram
#88Aight, conspiracy theory time. I'm becoming concerned about PRC influence in my country (USA). From my perspective the PRC (government) is blatantly evil, and happily engaging in cultural warfare, and nobody seems to be fighting back. I see absurd astroturfing and shilling on social media here (Reddit, Twitter, Facebook). It's always obvious - whereas a genuine criticizer of the Hong Kong protestors might ask about v…
It will be interesting to see how all of these silly videos recorded by kids will be used against them in 10-20 years. Everything that they do and say will be indexed and accessible for blackmail.
Not to mention all the ask-reddits such as "what serious crime did you commit and get away with?" or "what is your definition of torture? [SERIOUS]".
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This is less because Facebook is big and more because it’s the largest tech company without an OS. More people use Google or Apple’s native Mail client, browser, calendar.
I would hardly consider Amazon as having an OS - but having actual decent mobile website experience and being a service that requires less use than social media probably helps
Amazon's main apps are probably the store app and the Kindle app. The store app isn't very useful unless you have the ability to pay over the internet and the ability to have packages delivered; you probably shouldn't be in a country subject to US trade sanctions either.
The Kindle app may not require ability to pay via the internet, but it helps. There's also a big step to wanting to read.
Neither of these apps are going to hit the numbers that mostly non paid communications apps will hit, because of the difference in markets.