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Launched in 2012, Vine managed to gather around 200 million users in just one year.
Today, Vine is discontinued, despite talk of a revival a few years ago.
The podcaster and tiktoker known as JP Martínez shared his opinion on whether Vine is better than TikTok as a short video social network.
In the world of social networks, everything has happened and, at the same time, we have seen everything; platforms have come and gone, many of them without pain or glory, while others, in reality, were the necessary kick to boost a market that grows day by day.
Today, we know that, on the one hand, the dominant social network in the market is Facebook with its almost three billion registered users to date; However, in terms of popularity, the trend is that it is TikTok that has won over new users, those who have an important source of income on this type of platform.
In the market, of course, the offer is wide: YouTube, Instagram and even Twitter seem to have not lost their shine, but during the last couple of years it has become clear that what is today is short videos and TikTok is a specialist in that. item.
However, Before TikTok was launched in 2016, there was already a mobile app for creating short videoswhich, in its beginnings, allowed videos of up to seven seconds, to later be extended up to 140 seconds.
LLaunched in 2012, Vine is, in short, the direct antecedent of what we know today as TikTok; however, the platform that Twitter bought at the time did not enjoy any popularity, but rather it was a social network that was beginning to experiment with such content.
The subject of Vine was recently touched on by a podcaster and fellow Tiktoker named JP Martinez, who, with one of his guests in his podcast interview series, mentioned why, in his opinion, Vine is or was better than TikTok.
Specifically, the podcaster answered the question “why are Viners better than Tiktokers?” This was what he replied:
“It helped the Vines a lot to have that six-second limitation, because when Vine starts and they go to YouTube, they were already very good at synthesizing information. I think the Viners, especially, became very good at telling stories, being entertaining and synthesizing information.”explains JP Martínez.
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To this day, Vine is a platform already discontinued, despite the fact that in 2018 there was talk that he would be back with an “improved version”.
In its early days, the short-video social network had significant success, reaching 200 million users in 2013; however, with the advent of Periscope, Facebook Live, Snapchat and more, it was largely responsible for its not having a longer life.
Today, the leading platform for short videos is TikTok, which, in just five years since its foundation, has already exceeded one billion monthly active usersa fact that has caused great fear to the giant Facebook to such an extent that, according to information released a few months ago, it carried out a smear campaign against the Chinese social network.