Vine (service)

Vine
Original author(s)
Developer(s)Vine Labs, Inc. (Twitter, Inc.)
Initial releaseJanuary 24, 2013 (2013-01-24) – January 17, 2017 (2017-01-17)
Operating systemWindows, macOS, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Xbox One
Available in27 languages[citation needed]
TypeVideo sharing
LicenseProprietary software
Websitevine.co

Vine was an American short-form video hosting service where users could share up to 10-minute-long looping video clips. It was originally launched on January 24, 2013, by Vine Labs, Inc and Big Human.[1] Bought by Twitter, Inc. in 2012 before its launch, the service was shut down on January 17, 2017,[2] and the app was discontinued a few months later.[3]

Videos published on Vine's social network could also be shared on different social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. The Vine app was also used to browse videos, along with a group of videos that were uploaded by theme, and hoping that users could "trend" videos. Vine competed with other social media services such as Instagram and Snapchat. By December 2015, Vine had over 200 million active users.[4]

On October 27, 2016, Twitter announced that it would disable all uploads, but that viewing and download would continue to work.[5][6] On January 20, 2017, Twitter launched an online archive of every Vine video that had ever been published.[7] The archive was officially discontinued in April 2019.[8] Vine's co-founder Dom Hofmann created a successor not affiliated with Twitter,[9] which launched on January 24, 2020, as Byte; was renamed twice; and was discontinued on May 3, 2023.

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 5, 2024. Retrieved April 5, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Ng, Alfred. "Why Twitter killed off Vine after a short-lived run". CNET. Archived from the original on December 22, 2022. Retrieved December 22, 2022.
  3. ^ Fiegerman, Seth (January 17, 2017). "Twitter officially shuts down Vine". CNNMoney. Archived from the original on December 22, 2022. Retrieved December 22, 2022.
  4. ^ Craig Smith (August 24, 2014). "27 Vine Statistics and Facts". DMR. Archived from the original on March 8, 2022. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  5. ^ Foxx, Chris (October 27, 2016). "Twitter axes Vine video service". BBC News. Archived from the original on November 8, 2020. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  6. ^ "Important News About Vine". Medium.com. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  7. ^ Dalton, Andrew (January 20, 2017). "The Vine Archive will keep the videos looping forever". Archived from the original on January 3, 2023. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
  8. ^ "Vine FAQs". Archived from the original on July 6, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  9. ^ Blumenthal, Eli (December 6, 2017). "Ready for Vine 2.0? Co-founder teases new app". USA Today. Archived from the original on December 7, 2017. Retrieved December 7, 2017.

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