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TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram

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298 points elorant | 1 comments | 19 Nov 19 14:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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bransonf ◴[19 Nov 19 15:30 UTC] No.21573859[source]▶
What amazes me is that Tik-Tok fills the void created when Twitter killed vine.

Given the popularity of Vine, and the outrage when Twitter killed it, I have no idea why they thought it was a good move.

I’m bullish on Tik-Tok because I think it’s the next logical evolution of social media (and totally captures the Vine fan base which was pretty big to begin with)

First there was text, both Facebook and Twitter. Then images with instagram. Now people want videos that they can consume in short bits of time en mass.

I think you would be amiss to not see TikTok as a potentially big player in social media in the future.

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JohnJamesRambo ◴[19 Nov 19 15:52 UTC] No.21574184[source]▶
> First there was text, both Facebook and Twitter. Then images with instagram. Now people want videos that they can consume in short bits of time en mass.

What you are describing is the continued fall to smaller and smaller bits of stimulation and information. I’m worried about the consequences of this on the human mind and humanity in general. Our tech is gradually eroding our ability to focus on anything for more than a few seconds. I don’t want a future that is some weird mix of Idiocracy and getting the Black Shakes from Johnny Mnemonic. We need people that aren’t easily manipulated by ads and disinformation campaigns and that can think long and clearly about something.

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nbardy ◴[19 Nov 19 15:58 UTC] No.21574291[source]▶
At the same time we have the rise of long form podcasts. Producing quite the opposite effect.
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nosianu ◴[19 Nov 19 16:14 UTC] No.21574540[source]▶
Now weigh (e.g. multiply) the number of each with the number of people actually consuming it. Just look at Youtube: If a serious video that teaches you something interesting has a thousand views it can be called "very popular". The latest useless joke video easily gets a million views.
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1. baddox ◴[19 Nov 19 20:01 UTC] No.21577596[source]▶
And why is that a problem? So what if I scroll through 200 Twitter memes on my lunch break and then throw on a 2-hour educational YouTube video in the evening? Sure, I've given 200 impressions to the bad kind of content and only one impression to the good kind, but I don't think I've disastrously eroded my ability to focus on things.