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Elon Musk Planning Vine Reboot After Twitter Acquisition
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I had a math teacher in high school who would always have an extra credit question on every test. The answer would ALWAYS be 69. But you wouldn’t get any credit unless you showed your proof. LOL
Despite what, apparently more people than I thought, appear to believe the US and China do A LOT of business together. It’s not the same kind of relationship as the one we’ve had with Russia over the decades.
And idk this constant China bashing is really just a bit much. Regardless where Macrumors was founded, I believe if China is good enough for Apple to do business with and anyone coming here likes or cares about Apple products then China should be good enough for you too.
This is not how you do interest polling. Ask people if they want something (without mentioning the downsides), they always say yes.
A proper poll might better read:
A) bring back vine
B) invest time & money elsewhere
And Musk knows this. He isn't asking for opinions - he's already made up his mind.
A proper poll might better read:
A) bring back vine
B) invest time & money elsewhere
And Musk knows this. He isn't asking for opinions - he's already made up his mind.
Indeed. His polling is the equivalent of asking myself if I should get up any given morning. LOL
You bet your ass Elon would only ever offer any kind of legitimate privacy at a price, a service with a subscription fee.
Why would anyone waste their time on TikTok, Youtube Shorts, or god forbid, 6 second Vine videos. Everyone has better things to do than watch fake clickity click videos from 16 year olds.
What are you suggesting? That he actually never delivers on his promises??? What?😮
Tesla's Cybertruck, Full Self-Driving, robo-taxi mode on Tesla's that would make all Tesla owners rich, and a real Hyperloop are all very much finished very soon and will be fully ready and operating completely as expected in two years.
Just buy more Tesla stock if things are moving too slow. That always helps! 👏🤣
It's what everyone does. Billions of views and millions of dollars generated every day.
And you don't want to be an outsider, do you?
Stop thinking, start consuming!
Personally I hope EM drives Twitter into the ground and destroys it. The world will be a better place without all the petty hate and using it to destroy the lives of others. Get off it, not because EM bought it but because it's a plague on society and always has been. It makes your mind sick. I think that's pretty obvious.
Lolol. I know, it’s crazy how people get addicted to these things…. Hmmmm Macrumors forums don’t count do they?
I’d agree with that, except for the 2009 Iran uprising/revolution which opened real live reporting to the world after communications had been cut by the government. Twitter saved probably thousands of lives.
That was the beginning and the end of Twitter being useful. People now use it as a voice for hate and division.
Burn it to the ground Elon.
There's no algorithm or marketing team pushing us around, so I don't see how the two would compare.
It might be addicting. But it's mostly on us to keep the "ball" in the air.
I wouldn't worry.
I never experienced vine; was the "community" as cancerous as tiktok's?
I like the idea of a short-videos app, but TikTok is a privacy black hole and I absolutely hate everything the company stands for.
I like the idea of a short-videos app, but TikTok is a privacy black hole and I absolutely hate everything the company stands for.
I do remember it, but I believe the answer is no, which is why it failed.
With regard to short video format, I wonder what the actual value of it is. YouTube is great for learning and entertainment (currently chillin' listening to some great Icelandic electronica) but I get that people have different ideas about what constitutes entertainment. I’m generally a fan of YouTubes algorithm, and I will never download or sign up to TikTok.
Vine sounds like a good addition to the platforms and a useful competitor to TikTok. I’d like kids to not get sucked into TikTok, there’s room for something besides ByteDance’s effort.
But American companies are also subject to laws abroad.
Come on guys! You hate vine and you hate tic Tok!!!
Why suddenly the change in tune?!
Look at this another person who suddenly likes social media.
Elon fans !! Make up your mind!!
You either hate social media or you don’t lol
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i loved vine , but this wouldn’t work today. tiktok is literally plastered all over the world. it would be like bringing back myspace when there’s facebook
Didn't some company attempt this? I may have dreamt it but I remember it happening and flopping.
I’m not a fan of social media or of Elon Musk. But I happen to dislike the Chinese approach to privacy even more, and there is obviously a desire for the short-video format. That’s why I think western-owned competitors in the space are a good addition.
One aspect of business Steve Jobs and Apple got right. Steve Jobs “Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'". Elon Musk just gave Twitter a faster horse.
