Vine
“Six-second looping videos that defined an era of internet humor. Twitter shut it down before figuring out monetization.”
Lived 5 years · By Twitter
5y
2012 → 2017
January 17, 2017
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
Archive snapshot
API status
Data export
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
October 27, 2016
Twitter announces Vine will be discontinued
January 17, 2017
App removed from stores; site converts to "Vine Archive"
April 9, 2019
Vine Archive shuts down; only Wayback snapshots remain
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