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Elon Musk Planning Vine Reboot After Twitter Acquisition
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You have to admit, this is fun to watch new all the changes in Twitter by Musk. Maybe a sub model for Vine videos over 6 secs- both viewers and creators? Why not, more money. Oh, and you lazy 9-5 developers, I want this out by Thanksgiving or you are fired. LOL
Is Twitter a means of controlling the population?
If so wasn't it already being used to control the population?
And if so their pattern of censorship is cause of great concern. Maybe the social media sites should be regulated to be free speech platforms if they are really a means of population control without any restrictions other than those imposed on public free speech. If they are a means of controlling the public maximum freedom in a free society seems the obvious response.
This may be one of the few, very few, good things he's done..
This would be great. I don’t understand TikTok but I still watch Vine compilations on YouTube. It do go down…
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TikTok or Facebook? Which one do you prefer? (Have to choose one)
i'm not sure how to fix twitter in 2022 but it was my favorite mobile app at one time.
i barely use it now so pushing change is not a bad thing, there is potential there.
i barely use it now so pushing change is not a bad thing, there is potential there.
I understand and respect your experience. Not EVERY executive in the world has one. But as a C-level executive with over 25 years experience in the tech industry and having used the platform to network and “communicate” with other C-level executives I can tell you that your experience is in the minority.
Some executives have staff that manage their LinkedIn like any other social media. Absolutely. But it does not mean all of them do. Anyway I’m not advocating for the platform. It’s taken a large nose dive from what it once was. But like I said. It’s a necessary evil. Just like Twitter and many other social mediums.
Touché LOLWell, Henry Ford asked what the people wanted and that's what they said they wanted, so...
Every stupid, batsh!t crazy suggestion he has for Twitter, please, everyone, just vote for it. Just click "Yes".
The idea that he can push his developers and testers to implement massive changes within weeks is laughable. Either he doesn't care about testing and he's fine with releasing trash (oh yeah, Tesla), or he has absolute faith in a team of people who have been demoralised by his actions since April. Either way, it'll be fun to watch this 'genius' burn away $44bn of his money.
The idea that he can push his developers and testers to implement massive changes within weeks is laughable. Either he doesn't care about testing and he's fine with releasing trash (oh yeah, Tesla), or he has absolute faith in a team of people who have been demoralised by his actions since April. Either way, it'll be fun to watch this 'genius' burn away $44bn of his money.
TikTok is far more damaging to the people using it, and far more addictive. Plus it's based in China, whereas at least Facebook is based in the US where it can be regulated and isn't such a threat to national security.
Neither of .......Vine is not good. TikTok is terrible.
He's 'doing' too much in such a short time. As a Twitter user since 2007, I won't pay a fee to be verified nor extra features (if Vine is a paid add-on).
Unlike Zuckerberg I’m fairly agnostic when it comes to Musk. Overall, all things considered, I think he’s a been more of a force for but obviously he’s far from perfect and I don’t agree with him on everything. Far from it on many occasions.
I’m glad to hear this news. It’s probably too little too late given the proliferation of Snapchat, TikToc and others like it but Vine was cool back in its day. Having a limitation on content length forces you to be short, sweet and to the point but I think the ship has probably sailed for Vine. A lot of older teenagers probably don’t even remember when it was a thing. My nieces were both in high school then and both have graduated from college degrees now with four year degrees. That’s how long it’s been since I can remember seeing posts from a Vine user.
I’m glad to hear this news. It’s probably too little too late given the proliferation of Snapchat, TikToc and others like it but Vine was cool back in its day. Having a limitation on content length forces you to be short, sweet and to the point but I think the ship has probably sailed for Vine. A lot of older teenagers probably don’t even remember when it was a thing. My nieces were both in high school then and both have graduated from college degrees now with four year degrees. That’s how long it’s been since I can remember seeing posts from a Vine user.
I have a feeling the delay was just to buy time. He wouldn’t have made a legitimate offer without knowing the repercussions of backing out. He had to have seen a return on the investment.
I assume you meant “fired” and not “hired”. He fired the execs because they were incompetent and were destroying the platform. There was no significant attempt to leverage the prevalence and brand recognition of Twitter.
I used to think this, too. It is a fairy tale. Unfortunately, there is ample evidence over the past decade or so that it really does not work that way in the real world. If it did, no one would be bothering about misinformation. It would take care of itself.
One of the biggest flaws with that theory is the unfortunate number of people that believe the misinformation because it is what they actually want to believe. Bad ideas are embraced and the good ideas that are supposed to push them out are dismissed and ignored at best and treated with hostility at worst.
Okay TMRJIJ, thanks for the clarification. Kanye's account was "restricted" and then it became unrestricted before Elon took-over.
Does Vine run on my Mac via the camera? Is it an application or just something built into Twitter? Non curious minds want to know.
Exciting and refreshing to read in regards to what might possibly be next for twitter and vine.