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Twitter rips Vine from its product wall

Vine as users know it is done. Twitter has pulled the plug on the video sharing service in its current guise.

Twitter just pulled the plug on its Vine video service.

As expected the company replaced Vine's iOS and Android apps with a new, pared-down Vine camera app, while Vine's website will stay up and running for the time being.

Twitter first announced its plans to wind down Vine in October following staff cuts and a promise to investors to increase the company's focus.

The new app still allows them to record six-second looping videos and post them directly to Twitter, but it lacks any of the additional social features that Vine was known for.

Twitter had given users the chance to download their Vines through the service's mobile app in recent weeks but removed that feature from the new app on Tuesday.

Twitter launched Vine in 2012, and originally envisioned it as a social video sharing service.

However, Twitter long postponed monetisation of the service, and Vine faced some stiff competition from Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook.

Twitter eventually added a way for Viners to make money with their work last June but that may have been too little, too late to halt the service's decline.


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