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Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by dandandan »

Tenhundfeld wrote: post #37
xienze wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference is, that clip art company was directly selling a product. Make a collection of clipart, customers pay money.

I guess your critique is that Giphy doesn't have a clear, announced monetization strategy? That sounds fair. I haven't done any research on the company, but that seemed vague in their recent funding announcement/valuation. However, I think it's fair to say that Giphy has created something people want to use. Anecdotally, their Slack integration is very popular in the channels I frequent. Maybe the lack of public mone…

I think it's more relevant that Giphy isn't providing any original content, whereas the clipart vendors were selling their own media. Giphy is merely providing hosting for users' content, much of which is copyrighted.

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by zatkin »

mintplant wrote: post #32
xienze wrote: post #18

> “GIPHY delivers real-time GIFs as they happen, helping to power Twitter’s live commentary and conversation,” says Alex Chung, founder and CEO of GIPHY. Someone built a 30+ person company around animated GIFs. And they say there isn't a bubble...

They're rehosting loads of copyrighted content, too.

If you get your business very large very quick, you can pay off settlements and regulations. This is sort of what Uber has been doing, from what I've come to understand.

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by Tenhundfeld »

xienze wrote: post #46
Tenhundfeld wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess your critique is that Giphy doesn't have a clear, announced monetization strategy? That sounds fair. I haven't done any research on the company, but that seemed vague in their recent funding announcement/valuation. However, I think it's fair to say that Giphy has created something people want to use. Anecdotally, their Slack integration is very popular in the channels I frequent. Maybe the lack of public mone…

What makes this indicative of a bubble is the combination of: a. Business centered around an utterly frivolous endeavor b. Seemingly far more employees than necessary to support (a) c. Many millions of dollars raised in the pursuit of (a) and (b) You're absolutely correct that people want to use it. But they sure as hell aren't gonna pay directly for it or put up with ads. This is not a business made to last. I know…

Yeah, I guess I put less weight on your point a. Frivolity doesn't necessarily mean an inability to generate revenue. Things that seem frivolous at first or frivolous to certain people can turn into a Real Business™.

However, I agree that people wouldn't pay for it or put up with ads. As a casual Giphy user, I certainly wouldn't pay for it, and to your point, I wouldn't invest my own money in Giphy.

Anyway, thanks for spelling out your reasoning. Cheers.

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by minimaxir »

georgehotelling wrote: post #49
mintplant wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're rehosting loads of copyrighted content, too.

That was pretty much how YouTube started. Content ID wasn't part of their MVP.

Content ID was added because of the legal issues YouTube faced.

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by personjerry »

What the hell is Twitter turning into? A broadcast Messenger chat? It seems like to me that Twitter is increasingly promoting the mindlessness often found on sites like Reddit; In my opinion the attempt to increase the number of GIFs in an attempt to resume growth to millenials is misguided, and will lower the quality of Tweets overall (not that it was high to begin with), and will likely further alienate parts of its existing userbase, as we saw yesterday.[1]

[1] http://www.stephenfry.com/2016/02/peedinthepool/

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by ChristianBundy »

theOnliest wrote: post #48
ryandvm wrote: post #7

Sometimes I worry that our descendants many centuries from now will refer to this period of history as, "The Moronic Age."

http://www.xkcd.com/1601/

Playing the curmudgeonly "kids these days" character is a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it.

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by toosmart4u12 »

personjerry wrote: post #55

What the hell is Twitter turning into? A broadcast Messenger chat? It seems like to me that Twitter is increasingly promoting the mindlessness often found on sites like Reddit; In my opinion the attempt to increase the number of GIFs in an attempt to resume growth to millenials is misguided, and will lower the quality of Tweets overall (not that it was high to begin with), and will likely further alienate parts of it…

Twitter just isn't for you, buddy. Move on.

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

#58

Post by eva1984 »

gdulli wrote: post #29

Twitter is becoming worse in every way in order to chase the users of a larger social network that's worse in every way. The timeline isn't just about to become disjointed, it's going to become more inane as well.

Didn't understand the reason behind...If Twitter stays the same, they are surely dead too. A big reason that Twitter get crushed is because they basically didn't change over the past 3 years.

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by golergka »

xienze wrote: post #18

> “GIPHY delivers real-time GIFs as they happen, helping to power Twitter’s live commentary and conversation,” says Alex Chung, founder and CEO of GIPHY. Someone built a 30+ person company around animated GIFs. And they say there isn't a bubble...

I don't think that technological approach is enough here. You don't seem to take cultural significance of GIFs into account.

It's like saying that Pinterest is a photo album. Or that Twitter is just a blog engine with 140 characters. Completely correct. Completely missing the point.

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