It would be a huge shame if the same fate befell Periscope which I find hugely intriguing - just the ability to look at some arbitrary place in the world.
Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
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Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
#12comScore reports just under 5m uniques for Vine.co last month. It may be down on the height of its popularity but 5m unique users is a decent mass of people to monetise. Seems an odd thing to kill and not at least try to sell.
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#13Doesn't Twitter do the same thing as Vine now that Twitter does videos? I never got into Vine, but kind of assumed this would happen when Twitter bought Vine. Selling Vine outright would perhaps cause people to move to the new Vine instead of Twitter video, so this (to me) would seem like the best bet to keep Vine's users and migrate them to Twitter.
Vine's primary differentiating factor was 6 second looping videos. While the Twitter platform certainly supports video, it doesn't have the kind of automatic, looping, addictive format that Vine was good for.
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#14Wow, I really like Vine and am surprised that Twitter's visions for its path to profitability don't include such a flourishing community. Sad news keeps coming today... :(
I can't help it, but I find it amusing to see Twitter and vision in the same sentence. I think the lack of vision is Twitter's biggest problem right now, and not having a dedicated CEO doesn't help.
Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
#15I never knew Vine was part of Twitter, I guess that explains the horrible UX of the web version.
Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
#16Although a similar content format is available elsewhere, Vine's content and community is pretty unique to their app. I'm disappointed to see it get shut down in that light
Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
#17Doesn't Twitter do the same thing as Vine now that Twitter does videos? I never got into Vine, but kind of assumed this would happen when Twitter bought Vine. Selling Vine outright would perhaps cause people to move to the new Vine instead of Twitter video, so this (to me) would seem like the best bet to keep Vine's users and migrate them to Twitter.
They should have integrated these things better though. Instagram photos are so tightly coupled with Facebook (basically cross-posts), meanwhile Periscope, Vine, etc are apparently external cards in Twitter. Consider that in Twitter you can actually tag a person in a photo but can you get a gallery of photos with that tag? I dunno. Easy wins that have been neglected by Twitter for a while.
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#18Instagram (Facebook) ate it. Would be nice, by the way, if they could release the source code. Having such an example of a Flask app would be very useful for the community.
I believe Instagram uses Django https://engineering.instagram.com/web-service-efficiency-at-... In any case it's still a pretty popular site/app on it's own. I don't see Facebook killing it anytime soon.
Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
#19Seems strange.
If nothing else, it seems like a fantastic ad platform addition.
Re: Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
#20comScore reports just under 5m uniques for Vine.co last month. It may be down on the height of its popularity but 5m unique users is a decent mass of people to monetise. Seems an odd thing to kill and not at least try to sell.
I read on Reddit that they made an attempt to sell it but nobody was interested. I'm not sure how true that is, but it does seem very weird to kill off Vine.