Official line
Vine discontinued; camera experiments continued briefly.
X (Twitter) · Video · Product
Vine
Discontinued
2013–2017 · 4 years in market
Launched
Jan 24, 2013
Discontinued
Jan 17, 2017
Cause of death
Strategic refocus
Evidence
Unsourced
What was it?
Six-second looping video that minted a generation of comedians. Twitter killed it, then spent years watching TikTok do the job.
Why it died
Editorial reading
Cost, focus, and a failure to build a creator business. Twitter treated Vine as a side quest.
Founder takeaway
If you have the cultural moment, fund it like a company. Killing a network with no successor donates the format to a rival.
Sources
Unsourced — editorial reading
No primary source is attached yet. Treat the interpretation as editorial, not a citation.
What replaced it
ByteDance
TikTok
The short-video network Vine could have been.
Meta
Instagram Reels
The clone with a graph.
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