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Twitter Shutting Down Vine
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Some extremely short sighted comments on here.
I started a podcast a few months ago which has gone on to be a reasonable success in a short period of time and Twitter was integral to that.
I've met and collaborated with journalists from the other side of the world on my show and Twitter has helped me spread the word and increase awareness.
For many Twitter is about arguing, illiterate trolls, and bullying but when used and channeled in the right manner, it is a fantastic tool.
I started a podcast a few months ago which has gone on to be a reasonable success in a short period of time and Twitter was integral to that.
I've met and collaborated with journalists from the other side of the world on my show and Twitter has helped me spread the word and increase awareness.
For many Twitter is about arguing, illiterate trolls, and bullying but when used and channeled in the right manner, it is a fantastic tool.
Complaining about social media whilst on an internet forum... the irony.
Twitter is an invaluable tool for communicating with businesses. Took me several years to get on-board with that, but now that I have, it's the first place that I go to contact a company and get status updates, whenever possible.
Its a mass delivery platform of the stupid, so tired of crap links because some genius tweeted how stupid he really is without realizing it.
Prefer to post in forums and do that instead. LOL
I'm sure people who really want to make short little videos can still do so on any of the other bajillion video services online.
That level of vitriol should be reserved for things that matter. I don't like or use Pinterest, but I don't have raging feelings. And it is skin off my back if you give yourself a useless aneurysm, and my health premiums go up.
Sad. Really sad.
I'm not an avid user of Vine, but I've found many good videos through it, and made a few great ones over the years.
It would have been better if they had discontinued the service by making it only possible to view older vines for a few months/years, then fully discontinue it later.
Still though, why discontinue it?
I'm not an avid user of Vine, but I've found many good videos through it, and made a few great ones over the years.
It would have been better if they had discontinued the service by making it only possible to view older vines for a few months/years, then fully discontinue it later.
Still though, why discontinue it?
Of those you listed, Facebook is not going anywhere. Going forward, it's the next Google or Amazon.
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Wouldn't MySpace or even AOL have been that instead? Social media is not going anywhere, at the very least it will continue on with another name.
All these startups are starting to fail because they can't find a good way to monetize and eventually their users move on to the Next Big Thing. The same thing will happen to Facebook eventually when it becomes "un-cool", they've just managed to hold on longer than most.
And they'd still be a "start-up"?
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Doesn't seem like anyone is really talking about being allowed or not, more along the lines of finding it silly or not.
Oh okay, thanks for clearing that up. So it's silly for people to have different opinions.
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I'm going between threads and have been completely unaware of the context of this conversation, lol.
