Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels

Post by blisseyGo » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 11:17 PM UTC

spanhandler wrote: post #200

sjg007 wrote: post #175

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I can’t use snap chat but apparently it’s very popular!

I'm not sure if I'm just turning into an old man prematurely or what, but "social" sites and apps usually turn too confusing for me to use around their second or third iteration. Facebook c. 2010 was too confusing for me, so I bounced off (from descriptions of what it was like a couple years before that, I think I'd have enjoyed it then). Twitter's been too confusing for me to understand for years, I can barely follo…

Post by blisseyGo » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 11:19 PM UTC

dilap wrote: post #51

snowwrestler wrote: post #38

I 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…

My take on it is Twitter just isn't, as a company, very good at making software. This is from external observation and a couple of reports from friends who used to work there.

Post by theodric » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 11:32 PM UTC

Post by blisseyGo » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 11:43 PM UTC

jug wrote: post #60

surround wrote: post #47

Facebook launched Lasso as its own app two years ago. I’m not sure if there were any differences between it and TikTok, but either way, it failed miserably. https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut...

FB also has a Stories feature as Instagram, in turn from Snapchat, but I barely see anyone use it while everyone and their cat (literally) use Instagram Stories. Also, FB took a more advanced friend list concept from Google+ but few use or know how it works. (Like how “Acquintances” are your friends but they are pushed down by the algorithm) It is apparent that it’s hard to just shoehorn different usage patterns due…

Post by blisseyGo » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 11:49 PM UTC

corford wrote: post #268

magic7s wrote: post #251

I have a hunch that TikTok fakes the amount of likes that users post. I’ve heard people say their first post goes viral. It’s an interesting strategy. Young person posts a TikTok, “get famous”, keeps posting.

I don't think it's faking. That behaviour sounds broadly inline with https://www.veed.io/grow/reverse-engineering-how-tiktok-algo...