<story><title>Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left</title><url>http://www.recode.net/2016/7/12/12150660/vine-growth-departures-hannah-donovan-app-future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>niftich</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s such a shame, really; arguably Twitter, much more so than their competitors, tries to stick as close to the original form of their product as they can. I admire that.&lt;p&gt;Facebook (and Instagram) and Snapchat have both transformed from their original incarnations, in ways that have improved the companies&amp;#x27; valuation, but have not always improved the experience of users. It seems every single social network is trending towards feature parity with each other -- Facebook now has streaming video, Snapchat now has a decent text chat with messages that need not disappear, Instagram has an algorithmic no-longer-timeline wall and private messaging, they all have ads, even Tumblr now has IM and livestreaming. Some (important) differences remain, but from an observer time-travelling forward from 2012, the social networks of today would appear nearly interchangeable.&lt;p&gt;But there&amp;#x27;s Twitter. All these years, it has stayed remarkably close to the original concept of microblogging. Instead, it developed (or acquired) other formats and cultivated them as separate services, separate communities. It&amp;#x27;s unfortunate that not even wide societal impact can make a service profitable, or at least quell the pressure to feature-creep outside of your original scope.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tlrobinson</author><text>Consider that two major newsworthy events in the US in the past week (Philando Castillo killing and Dallas attack) were live-streamed on Facebook rather than Periscope.&lt;p&gt;Facebook already has a huge advantage with 10x the active users of Twitter, AND they integrated live video directly into the app that many of those users already have, rather than a separate app most of them don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;App constellations&amp;quot; may be a better user experience... if you bother to download the whole constellation... but I think a similar principle to &amp;quot;the best camera is one you have with you&amp;quot; applies.</text></comment>
<story><title>Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left</title><url>http://www.recode.net/2016/7/12/12150660/vine-growth-departures-hannah-donovan-app-future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>niftich</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s such a shame, really; arguably Twitter, much more so than their competitors, tries to stick as close to the original form of their product as they can. I admire that.&lt;p&gt;Facebook (and Instagram) and Snapchat have both transformed from their original incarnations, in ways that have improved the companies&amp;#x27; valuation, but have not always improved the experience of users. It seems every single social network is trending towards feature parity with each other -- Facebook now has streaming video, Snapchat now has a decent text chat with messages that need not disappear, Instagram has an algorithmic no-longer-timeline wall and private messaging, they all have ads, even Tumblr now has IM and livestreaming. Some (important) differences remain, but from an observer time-travelling forward from 2012, the social networks of today would appear nearly interchangeable.&lt;p&gt;But there&amp;#x27;s Twitter. All these years, it has stayed remarkably close to the original concept of microblogging. Instead, it developed (or acquired) other formats and cultivated them as separate services, separate communities. It&amp;#x27;s unfortunate that not even wide societal impact can make a service profitable, or at least quell the pressure to feature-creep outside of your original scope.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakelarkin</author><text>&amp;quot;But there&amp;#x27;s Twitter. All these years, it has stayed remarkably close to the original concept of microblogging.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;right, they only added photos, video, FB style profile pages, link shortening, location metadata, algorithmic timeline, moments, messaging, and extensively developed mobile apps but otherwise yes exactly the same as when they were an 140 char SMS broadcast service.</text></comment>