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“It saw you whole — all 360 degrees and seven microphones of you.”
“Six seconds was all it needed to change everything”
Vine was a short-form video hosting service where users shared six-second looping clips, launched on iOS on January 24, 2013 by founders Rus Yusupov, Dom Hofmann and Colin Kroll, after Twitter bought the young company for $30 million. By December 2015 it had over 200 million active users, and its looping format sparked trends that spilled across Facebook and Twitter. It helped give rise to influencers and collaborati
On October 27, 2016, Twitter announced it would disable all uploads, and the service was formally discontinued on May 3, 2023. Vine had competed with Instagram and Snapchat, but its real legacy is everything after: as one of the first short-form video platforms, it preceded TikTok, where its playbook became a global phenomenon. The loops may have stopped, but the format never really died.
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“It saw you whole — all 360 degrees and seven microphones of you.”
“It won a Pulitzer, then the budget meeting happened.”
“He ran through every level; the servers just stopped running with him.”