I guess the data mining was the missing ingredient for popularity?

  • squiblet@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    The video length was pretty limiting, though. Instagram at the time started doing 15 second videos. The six seconds lent itself to goofy comedy and not much more.

    It seems like they should have sold it. Or just jammed in a bunch of ads… maybe an option to remove ads with a paid membership. Simply killing it doesn’t make any money other than to avoid losing more, and they’d already invested a fair bit which you can’t recoup by just closing something. Of course, Google does that all the time I guess.

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      8 months ago

      Maybe they saw it as an acqui-hire moment to get their staff, or at least keep them from going ro a conpetitor.

      Of course, that assumes social media owners have clues and strategy; it seems like a lot of them were “we stumbled into vsast success, now what.”