Vine () was a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. The service was founded in June 2012, and American microblogging website Twitter acquired it in October 2012, just before its official launch. Users’ videos were published through Vine’s social network and could be shared on other services such as Facebook and Twitter. Vine’s app could also be used to browse through videos posted by other users, along with groups of videos by theme, and trending, or popular, videos. Vine competed with other social media services such as Instagram and Mobli.
Launched on January 24, 2013, by December 2015 Vine had 200 million active users. On October 27, 2016, Twitter announced it would disable uploads, but viewing and download would continue to work. On January 20, 2017, Twitter launched an Internet archive of all Vine videos, allowing people to continue watching previously filmed Vine videos.
As of December 2017, co-founder Dom Hofmann has announced he has begun working on Vine’s successor, V2. V2 is not affiliated with Twitter. However, this project has been cancelled permanently due to lack of funding.
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