Vine (service)
Vine was an American short-form video hosting service where users could share 6-second-long looping video clips. It was originally launched on January 24, 2013, by Vine Labs, Inc. Bought by Twitter, Inc. in 2012 before its launch, the service was shut down on January 17, 2017, and the app was discontinued a few months later.
A screenshot of a Vine on Shawn Mendes's profile showing the loops counter and description | |
| Original author(s) | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Vine Labs, Inc. (Twitter, Inc.) |
| Initial release | January 24, 2013 – January 17, 2017 |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Xbox One |
| Available in | 25 languages |
| Type | Video sharing |
| License | Proprietary software |
| Website | vine |
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.
On October 27, 2016, Twitter announced that it would disable all uploads, but that viewing and download would continue to work. On January 20, 2017, Twitter launched an online archive of every Vine video that had ever been published. The archive was officially discontinued in April 2019. Vine's co-founder Dom Hofmann created a successor not affiliated with Twitter, which launched on January 24, 2020, as Byte; was renamed twice; and was discontinued on May 3, 2023.