The Congressional antitrust hearings were a week ago.
Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels
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#152I still cannot believe that Twitter bought Vine, couldn't figure out what to do with it, shut it down, then had to bring it back as a read-only archive because there was so much popular outcry. At the time, the story was that all these other platforms like Instagram and Snapchat were adopting short videos, so Vine could not compete anymore. But obviously it was possible to compete, since an entirely new service --Tik…
>there may be a human-oriented life cycle to these sorts of social apps. Once a social platform is around long enough, it becomes the thing that old people use
Precisely, although I think it's 50/50 between "what old people use" and "where the corporations live". IG is being used less and less because it's turned into the Home Shopping Network, places like TikTok are popular because corporate interests haven't shown up yet (basically no ads and very few sponsored posts / product placement).
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well there already is a competitor - TikTok. As it stands, if I only care about the TikTok/Reels functionality, I'm going with TikTok. It doesn't come with all the extra bloat. I guess we'll see what happens with the potential Trump ban and Microsoft acquisition though.
If Microsoft acquires TikTok how would they go about vetting all of the code to remove any potentially malicious components?
They're not. "Malicious" in this case means gathering user data and MS wants that data. They're just going to point the information flow to their servers.
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#154Reels isn’t going to compete with TikTok in any real way for a few simple reasons. First and foremost, as a non-Instagram user, I flat-out can’t use it. A while back, when I was curious about TikTok, I downloaded it and was instantly swiping through a video feed that was already getting customized for me. I downloaded Instagram this morning and was presented with a wall to create an account. Nope. Second, TikTok is n…
People also want to use the apps that corporations haven't infiltrated yet. Notice how there's very little advertising / sponsored posts / product placement on TikTok. See: IG is basically the Home Shopping Network now, with an ad between every third post and sponsored products in every mainstream account's feed.
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#155I still cannot believe that Twitter bought Vine, couldn't figure out what to do with it, shut it down, then had to bring it back as a read-only archive because there was so much popular outcry. At the time, the story was that all these other platforms like Instagram and Snapchat were adopting short videos, so Vine could not compete anymore. But obviously it was possible to compete, since an entirely new service --Tik…
If I had a guess why Facebook has stayed around as long as it has.
It started with college students. That quickly became adults that continued to use it into their careers. Skipping the myspace teen generation fad cycle.
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#156How to appeal to Gen Z; name the thing after a form of video playback that was totally obsolete before any of them were born.
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#157why does everyone think they can beat tik tok just taking their existing content and changing the navigation to clone tik tok? people use it for the content, not the navigation style
That’s what they said about Snapchat
78% of internet users aged 18-24 use Snapchat
Roughly eight-in-ten Snapchat users ages 18 to 29 (77%) say they use the app every day, including 68% who say they do so multiple times day.
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#158I wonder if Zuck included the Suppress Biden Tags feature?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/instagram-relat...
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#159>..popular karaoke app TikTok.. Never heard it that way.
The entire article is filled with things that are flat-out wrong, I'm not sure how this made it past an editor.
> Reels' video distribution algorithm will resemble TikTok's: users will see the most popular videos at the moment, rather than a selection tailored to their individual profile
TikTok is all about showing you content tailored to you. Compare your TikTok feed to any of your friends' and it'll be super different.
> Reels differs from TikTok thanks to Instagram's augmented reality effects, which let users overlay images and filters onto their videos
TikTok's had this forever.
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#160"Instagram Reels" in this headline reads like present simple tense. But then you realize that Instagram isn't a competitor to Facebook, and well...