Vine is dead, long live Vine Camera
Twitter’s short-lived video platform Vine may have been discontinued, with Twitter today ceremonially switching off all sharing, liking, commenting and re-vining functionality, but the service is far from dead as evidenced by its successor – Vine Camera.
The successor platform has been given birth on iOS and Android as an app update and takes the form of a bare bones camera screen of its predecessor shorn of all social media functionality. Instead, the system merely facilitates sharing videos on users Twitter feeds by default.
Additional functionality is limited at best with options restricted to adding an optional caption, or switching to a different Twitter account to share from. More involved features which have become familiar to Vine users such as the Soundboard, Snap-To-Beat and Featured Track soundtracking tools are all absent.
As part of this shake-up Twitter will loop all videos under 6.5 seconds whether they are Vines or not, ensuring that the popular looping format will live on even if Vine does not.
Users of the old Vine app can continue to view feeds and profiles as well as download videos for the time being, although the app will eventually cease to work in its entirety.