Vine (service)
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| Original author(s) | Dom Hofmann Rus Yusupov Colin Kroll |
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| Developer(s) | Vine Labs, Inc. (Twitter) |
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January 24, 2013 Shut down: January 17, 2017 |
| Development status | Defunct, no longer accepting entries |
| Operating system | iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Xbox One, Windows, OSX |
| Size | 64.4 MB |
| Available in | 25 languages |
| Type | Video sharing |
| License | Freeware |
| Alexa rank |  4,654 (February 2017) |
| Website | vine |
January 24, 2013
Vine was a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. On October 27, 2016, Twitter announced it would disable uploads, but viewing and download would continue to work.
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 can be shared on other services such as Facebook and Twitter. Vine's app can 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 others such as Instagram and Mobli. In December 2015 Vine had 200 million active users.
Vine was founded by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll in June 2012. The company was acquired by Twitter in October 2012 for a reported $30 million. It originated in New York.
Vine officially launched on January 24, 2013 as a free app for iOS devices. On June 2, 2013, an Android version was released. On November 12, 2013 the application was released for Windows Phone.
In a couple of months, Vine became the most used video sharing application in the market, even with low adoption of the app. On April 9, 2013, Vine became the most-downloaded free app within the iOS App Store and on May 1, 2014, Vine launched the web version of the service to explore videos.
On October 14, 2014, an Xbox One version was released allowing Xbox Live members to watch the looping videos.
In July 2014, Vine updated their app with a new "loop count" meaning every time someone watches a vine, a number on top of the video will appear showing how many times it was viewed. The "loop count" also includes views from vines that are embedded onto other websites.
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