Vine will no longer be available for users to record short clips. Twitter's video-sharing app that became viral for a few years is being transformed into a simple Vine Camera app, beginning last Tuesday.
Twitter pulling the plug on Vine was officially announced back in October. While Vine fans hoped that Twitter would instead sell the short video-sharing app, the company instead transformed it into a simpler version, now known as Vine Camera app.
Today’s app update, the Vine Camera, lets you keep making Vines & posting them to Twitter, where they now loop!
— Vine (@vine) January 17, 2017
Vine will still be running, for now. But the app will only serve as an archive for old short videos for its users. The official website Vine.co, however, will no longer host new videos. For how long the app will serve as an archive is yet to be announced by Twitter.
But before laying to rest the video-sharing app, Twitter has encouraged users to download their respective Vines via the mobile app service. However, this feature has been removed starting Tuesday. Variety reported that there are 3rd-party tools that could download Vines.
The catch is that this violates the Terms and Conditions of the service. The Vine Camera is another story. Although this particular app has been stripped off all social media functions, users will still be able to record 6.5-second looping videos.
These videos can be either saved on the user's camera roll or posted on the user's Twitter account. Vine's standard creation tools are still included in the camera app. These includes grid overlay, multi-clip trimming, ghost tool, and draft support. Twitter acquired Vine in 2012 for an estimated $30 million purchase long before the app officially launched.
However, Twitter struggled to expand the full service of the popular video-sharing app. Its competitors, on the other hand, like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat were able to develop their respective social media offerings.
According to Fortune, a fitting goodbye was posted on Vine's official Twitter page: the viral "eyebrows on fleek" by Vine user Peaches Monroee. The message pays tribute to the meme inspired by the clip.
To answer the most common questions from users, a "Frequently Asked Questions" was posted by Vine. It includes how to switch to Vine Camera app, how to download past recordings, and how to follow all favorite Vine users on Twitter.
The Vine Camera app is available for iOS and Android devices. Simply update the Vine app to the 6.0 version and it will automatically switch to the new Vine Camera app.
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