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Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app

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Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app

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I don't get it. Why not make it Twitter's Dedicated Video App as vine already has a strong network which can be built upon. Very soon Facebook will release their dedicated video app and Twitter will be looking clueless. I don't get big companies

Integrating two services of this scale isn't trivial or inexpensive, even for a big company. Especially for a big company that is laying people off.

The "integration" doesn't need to be incredibly sophisticated. Look at Periscope.

Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know the answer, but I do remember people saying that Google was making a huge mistake buying the unmonetizable YouTube.

YouTube is long form video though. Plenty of content to advertise on. Where are you going to cram ads in to vine without it being annoying enough for adblockers to nuke them?

Maybe show ads once every 20 videos ?

Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app

#56
(Sadly) We should've expected this the moment Twitter acquire Vine. The Vine team no doubt brought some amazing improvements to Twitter since 2012. Sad to see it go.

It's kinda fun seeing a front-page of Vine at any date at the archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151202002305/https://vine.co/

Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app

#58

but what about all the vine stars? What will they livelihood become?

If you have followed the scene for the last months they all switched to Facebook (Viral comedy-sketches á la Vine + Facebook Live) and doing daily Vlogs on YouTube. Check e.g. Logan Paul as a reference.

Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app

#59

I don't get it. Why not make it Twitter's Dedicated Video App as vine already has a strong network which can be built upon. Very soon Facebook will release their dedicated video app and Twitter will be looking clueless. I don't get big companies

Twitter has no idea what they're doing and they haven't for a very long time.

Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app

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This is pretty sad. I'm not a "proper" Vine user -- I don't even have the app installed -- but I've long loved seeing vines via Twitter or Tumblr. I hope a similar product comes along to fill the void and reunite the Vine community (introducing: YouTube Loops??).

coub.com? I thought it was quite popular, but apparently that's only in Russia.
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