We lost a legend yesterday, as YouTube defeated Vine with anoverwhelming victory.
Today, Venmo will try its luck against Twitter.
The former has more viral name recognition and has been name-dropped in hip hop lyrics for years.
Graphic: Gizmodo
But Venmo has been in the game longer and has more users so it ultimately triumphed.
Its biggest innovation was turning the act of sending money into content for its social feed.
So if youre hesitant to give a thumbs up to Elon Musks app, your conscience can be clear.
Graphic: Google
Likewise, if you want to lick Elons boots with your vote, youre out of luck.
Were talking about the bird app here.
Some of thestrangest characterson the internet dedicated their time to posting simply for the love of the game.
Here are the nominees. Choose your fighter.Graphic: Vicky Leta
And the Arab Spring briefly convinced many that Twitter was capable of toppling despotic governments.
It gave users 140 characters to express themselves, and thats about it.
Experiments with live video and audio floundered, but the simple tweet remained powerful.
It wasnt all great.
Theres certainly a very good argument to be made that Twitter was always a very bad app.
People have made that argument every day since Elons takeover.
So, reader, whatll it be?
Should Venmo go to the next round or does Twitter deserve to sit on the throne?
Voting has closed and Venmo goes to the next round!
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