Twitter has announced on Oct. 27, 2016 that they would fully shut down the Vine app service. The Vine has been eventually shut down on January 17. The Vine app has been shut down but Twitter announced that the video contents made from 2013 to 2016 can be viewed by using the Vine Archive site.
What is Vine? Vine is a video app made for Twitter.
Vine was officially launched backed in 2013. A Vine video can last for a length of 6.5 second or shorter.
Vine has been popular when it got all the hype and the buzz but it has died down. Thus, Twitter has thought of getting rid of the Vine completely.
However now, Twitter has created a utilitarian app, a Vine camera. The Vine camera is perfect for making short, looping videos.
Meanwhile, some apps have offered users with a platform to save their Vine videos but Twitter has instead found a way for users to extract and preserve their data, and their solution is the Vine Archive.
In the Vine's blog post, they have characterized the Vine Archive is a time capsule. The Vine Archive can be found at the Vine website where everything is categorized.
As seen in the Vine website, the various categories that are lined include Animals, Art, Comedy, Edits, Music and Dance, Sports, Weird, and more. The videos have also been organized as Editor's Picks and Playlists such as "Do It For The Vine", "Bruh", and others.
The Twitter's Vine Archive is also preserving their metadata, and that includes the number of likes, revines, loops the video received, as well as the original posting date of the video, the creator's name, and the title. The Vine Archive's website also features the "Community section" where the "most like videos" can be found, the "most revined fail," "most looped comedy edit," "most liked animal," and other more superlatives.
Vine users who don't want to have their videos be a part of the Vine Archive can opt out. They can log in to the site and delete their account.
Twitter is a potential hub for quick videos. These are the things that could not be found on YouTube, Instagram or Facebook. Many users wonder that if Twitter loves Vine that much, why would they shut it down after all?
Watch the video about Vine below:
