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Mignano: AI-generated feeds will eventually diminish human creator value
“I think where we're inevitably headed is now when you're swiping TikTok or Reels or Sora, We're eventually gonna end up in a place where most of that content is generated on the fly specifically to target you and to capture your attention as long as possible. …”
Agrawal: ChatGPT exhibits rare retention 'smile curve' like TikTok and Instagram
“And ChatGPT exhibits a smile curve. The other apps that exhibit smile curves are Instagram, and TikTok.”
X users are two years behind TikTok on humor and content tolerance
“I think the first step of the pyramid is Twitter or people on Twitter are about two years behind when it comes to humor compared to people on Instagram, TikTok.”
Josephs: Faceless TikTok growth hacking fails for high-trust financial products
“There's a, you probably see it on Twitter all the time, all these kind of young kind of, they call them cracked out engineers, growth hacking TikTok with the faceless videos and yada, yada, yada, and that stuff works. But that doesn't necessarily really work f…”
Fiedler: Digitally native brands beat legacy chains via TikTok foot traffic
“These entrepreneurs are repainting You know, the streets with new brands and they're digitally native, which provides a huge advantage over the incumbents. The newer generations are walking into places because of their phones, right? That's their navigation sy…”
Mignano: TikTok virality can easily inflate startup revenue without proving business durability
“If you can figure out how to go viral on TikTok and you have a very well optimized conversion funnel, you can quickly run up your revenue rate. Like it's actually like not that hard. That's how good TikTok is. But it doesn't really say anything about the durab…”
Josephs: Twitter content lacks the algorithmic lifespan of Instagram and TikTok
“One of the downsides of creating content on Twitter is it has a lifespan on it. So when you tweet about it, you're not gonna go on the For You page and see a tweet from Nancy Pelosi Tracker six months ago, but on Instagram and TikTok you can.”
Diamond: Saturn hits #2 in App Store during summer, beating TikTok
“During the summer months, you know, we reach number two on the entire App Store, number one in productivity, ahead of some great tools like ChatGPT and others, TikTok”