Didn't their copy of Snap story feature successfully enough? In my personal experience with Instagram, I rarely look at any post anymore. My viewing typically finishes after watching a few story videos. Their failure is probably on content, Instagram posts are too "formal", too commercial, not as viral as most funny TikTok shorts.
Why Instagram failed to become TikTok
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#32Without reliable numbers, I can’t take this post seriously. As much as I am on “TikTok’s recommendations are better” camp, my direct surroundings only share things with me on Reels. Obviously it’s very age and location related observation, but when you consider places like Hong Kong/India, where it is banned, I don’t think IG is losing big way. Add that the usual “TikTok bad cause data mining”, you’ll get a lot of pe…
"age and location related "
I am completely out of touch. Which age bracket prefers Instagram, which TikTok in your opinion?
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#33This thesis is absurd. Who gives a shit where the poster's identifier sits? No one. It's all about the feed.
Instagram's feed is full of bullshit that has nothing to do with anyone I follow. It's a conduit for spam at this point, and everyone knows it.
TikTok on the other hand is just a sewer line. I don't know what dictates the effluent they're funneling through anyone's feed, but it represents a new low even to cynics. Just... mind-boggling stupidity.
Vine came and went. So why the ascendance of TikTok? Human stupidity. My condolences to Vine's creators.
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#34Without reliable numbers, I can’t take this post seriously. As much as I am on “TikTok’s recommendations are better” camp, my direct surroundings only share things with me on Reels. Obviously it’s very age and location related observation, but when you consider places like Hong Kong/India, where it is banned, I don’t think IG is losing big way. Add that the usual “TikTok bad cause data mining”, you’ll get a lot of pe…
"age and location related " I am completely out of touch. Which age bracket prefers Instagram, which TikTok in your opinion?
At least here in Canada, Instagram is used by millennials, and TikTok is Gen Z.
Re: Why Instagram failed to become TikTok
#35Without reliable numbers, I can’t take this post seriously. As much as I am on “TikTok’s recommendations are better” camp, my direct surroundings only share things with me on Reels. Obviously it’s very age and location related observation, but when you consider places like Hong Kong/India, where it is banned, I don’t think IG is losing big way. Add that the usual “TikTok bad cause data mining”, you’ll get a lot of pe…
"age and location related " I am completely out of touch. Which age bracket prefers Instagram, which TikTok in your opinion?
Most people who are on TikTok, are most likely using Instagram in one capacity or other. Some people who are on Instagram, think TikTok is "cringe and for little funny dances".
Younger people on TikTok seem to be setting the trends (as it has always been throughout the history), which eventually make their way to Reels, Shorts and etc. So, they think Reels is cringe, as they just copy TikTok.
It's the usual "I don't want to be where the old people are" problem of every tech company that tries to attract younger user base. Similar to why people under 30 would use Facebook's social media section (yes, Marketplace, Groups and etc. are wildly being used by everyone), as that's what their "grandpas and grandmas are doing".
The whole thing becomes a mess and hard to evaluate when you think which app is banned where, so location plays a major role in userbase as well. In the end, I guess both are making a bank somehow.
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#36Both are doing the same thing we saw happening to real-estate leading up to the 2008 meltdown. Replace real estate with Attention and its the same story. Attention is finite just like Land. There is only so much of it that can be sold limited by money supply in the system. Once that limit is reached cook up bullshit to keep selling real estate and in this case view counts up. Interesting difference is it's not just a…
But do social media companies ever really pay for the externality that is "info sewage accumulating in people's heads"? To me that's a cost that will always be borne as a society— chaos in the public square, unproductive political discourse, broken families, acts by extremists, etc.