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My friends never got Vine but all love TikTok (lemmy.world)

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

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Imagine thinking that Twitter (now X) wasn't doing data mining on vine.

[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago

Imagine thinking that any for-profit company built on VC funding won't end up data mining.

[–] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I’m certain they did, but the main page of vine was curated by humans at some point. It was organic for a moment in time or at least gave that appearance.