Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left

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Re: Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left

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Post by warcher » Thu, Jul 14, 2016, 5:57 PM UTC

fao_ wrote: post #102

warcher wrote: post #94

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This is such an important point, lost in the punditry. Twitter gets a lot of love from journalists and people with a profile, who write the articles about twitter and control public perception. They have an interest in maintaining a personal brand and have enough visibility that Twitter works for them. If you listened to those people, Twitter's biggest problem would be trolls writing mean (and often abusive) tweets a…

Twitter is better than Reddit because it is decentralizes the information from single, topic-related feeds people can post to, to one feed per person that you can subscribe to. This makes it much faster and more convenient than Reddit for getting status posts on things you like, i.e. an independent game developer's latest WIP. Some people have split accounts that you can choose to follow to receive different kind of…

I suppose all I can say to that is, I do not believe this level of gamesmanship to extract Twitter's value proposition is going to work out. I think they're asking too much of their users, and if they can't figure it out, they're gonna fail.

Re: Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left

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Post by PeCaN » Fri, Jul 15, 2016, 1:34 AM UTC

timcederman wrote: post #167

madgar wrote: post #164

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My point is that your sarcasm was laughably bad. You came off like you genuinely believe that any perceived weakness makes room for a new company. Which is something people genuinely believe on this website. If you want to make an effective point with sarcasm, you need to stay a bit more grounded.

Based on what PeCaN said, it seems he/she thinks that Vine is an anomaly, and uses a vast amount of resources compared to what is required. I believe they are perfectly normal, and if anything are slightly on the leaner side of average. If PeCaN is right, and I'm wrong, then he/she should be starting a company much more efficient than the average, and benefiting from being that much more effective than his/her compet…

For what it's worth… I /do/ work for a very efficient company, and benefit from it relative to our competition.

I'm not personally interested in Silicon Valley brogramming for social video sharing sites, but thanks for your confidence that I could dominate the market.

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