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by toohotatopic 2164 days ago
How can Twitter destroy the idea of Vine? Twitter can destroy Vine.co, but why is there no competitor with the same idea?

The moment they had shut down vine.co, a new site with the same idea could have gone life and absorbed all the users.

Why does this not happen? There are Facebook user groups, reddits and other social networks, even Twitter itself. A replacement for something that popular should be known instantly and take over without friction. Why does 'The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it' not work here?
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nemothekid 2164 days ago
>* a new site with the same idea could have gone life and absorbed all the users.*

But that did happen - it was called Musical.ly, which is now known as TikTok (US). I don't think people realize that the US version of TikTok was preceded by an app called Musical.ly, which was also Chinese owned, but failed in China but had massive success in the US.

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