Twitter to Close Vine
 

Twitter has announced it is to close its video sharing service Vine about four years after it launched.

Vine let people share six-second-long video clips that played on a loop.

Twitter did not give a reason for the closure, but earlier on Thursday it announced it was cutting 9% of its workforce following slow growth of the social network.

"In the coming months we'll be discontinuing the [Vine] mobile app," the company said in a blog.

I saw this message somewhere today. Some webmasters used it for the porn content but it was a while ago.

I would have thought they could have found a buyer - It must have some value...

I'm wondering if they want to kill it rather than feed it to their competition

Since vine launched every other app has enabled video. This isn't that surprising.

maybe Vine was the player who pulled from twitter. could be why they don't have a reason for closing vines

What will happen to all that archive content?

thanks for the info

"Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree."

twitter now allows video uploading & sharing of its own, up to 30 seconds and 30mbs :2 cents:

With IG stories, Snapchat, FB/Twitter vid software, and Boomerang, Vine is already a social media relic- an outdated model now only good for retirement :2 cents: