Vine

Est. 2012·2017

Six-second looping videos that defined an era of internet humor. Twitter shut it down before figuring out monetization.

Lived 5 years · By Twitter

Lived

5y

2012 → 2017

Shutdown

January 17, 2017

Owner

Twitter

Category

Social

Domain status now

Archive only

The original is gone, but a public archive snapshot is available.

vine.co → archive.vine.co

Evidence & sources

Official shutdown source

Original domain

https://vine.co

API status

Dead· killed January 17, 2017

Data export

Window passed

Vine Archive read-only until early 2019 when it was taken offline entirely.

What replaced it

TikTok

tiktok.com

The format Vine pioneered; Vine alumni became TikTok's first generation of creators.

Timeline

  1. October 27, 2016

    Twitter announces Vine will be discontinued

  2. January 17, 2017

    App removed from stores; site converts to "Vine Archive"

  3. April 9, 2019

    Vine Archive shuts down; only Wayback snapshots remain

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