Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app

Post by protomyth » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 6:53 PM UTC

downandout wrote: post #82

Grue3 wrote: post #48

Never used Vine, and the videos from it never worked on my browser, but this is truly shocking. Like, Google Reader shutdown level shocking. Twitter is seriously clueless if they weren't able to make any use of such a popular service. Especially when Periscope is still running somehow. Though it's only a matter of time for that too now.

Periscope may stick around for a while only because of the current obsession with live video. As soon as Facebook gives up on live (or at least stops focusing so much on it), Twitter will follow suit and fold up Periscope. If I were an engineer on that team, I'd do some proactive job hunting.

Post by majewsky » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 6:55 PM UTC

nerfhammer wrote: post #72

OoTheNigerian wrote: post #36

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 another dedicated video app, Periscope.

Post by cunotaco » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 6:57 PM UTC

Grue3 wrote: post #48

Never used Vine, and the videos from it never worked on my browser, but this is truly shocking. Like, Google Reader shutdown level shocking. Twitter is seriously clueless if they weren't able to make any use of such a popular service. Especially when Periscope is still running somehow. Though it's only a matter of time for that too now.

Post by majewsky » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 7:03 PM UTC

winteriscoming wrote: post #74

Never used Vine app and the vine video don't render on my browser which has flash disabled. But having just read the features of vine app, I'm surprised Twitter decided to let this go. An app which allows creating and playing 6 second video in a loop would, IMO, have been a good fit for advertising content creators and Twitter could have used Vine as one core product in their advertising platform - after all advertis…

Post by xyzzy4 » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 7:07 PM UTC

sib wrote: post #70

xyzzy4 wrote: post #57

Congress should make it illegal for a public company to shut down apps that see this much usage, unless the employees are quitting. Some users have 12 million followers.

That is the last possible thing we'd want. We already have contract law that covers the case where a customer has paid a provider to provide a service and the service provider stops without delivering. But, in the case of a free service, where there are no commitments, service providers should be free to stop providing services whenever they want.