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> [TikTok] is the first time that Americans have really had to deal with their teenagers using a form of mass media that isn’t created in their country by people who mostly share their values. It’s from somewhere else.

I wonder how much Vine influenced TikTok/Musical.ly, and if Vine's timing was bad, or if Twitter just really dropped the ball.



Twitter was struggling financially at that time and didn’t have the billions of dollars Bytedance has burned through to reach scale.




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