Vine Has Vanished

Although six seconds doesn’t seem like a logical amount of time to film a video to entertain, inform or persuade an audience, the Vine application somehow made it work. Today marks five years since Vine first launched in 2013. Between January 24, 2013 and January 17, 2017 when it shut down, Vine reached up to 40 million followers and was still growing. From the help of EliteStrategies, here are some fun facts that most people didn’t know about Vine.

First of all, Vine got its name from the term “vignette”, which is the word used to describe a short, yet impressionable scene. As cool as that fun fact is, a better one is that Twitter owns Vine. This makes sense considering five Vines are tweeted every second and five tweets per second consist of Vine links. Part of the success, I think, Vine had was the ability of users to tweet Vines, and play them through several social media platforms. This made the Vines extremely accessible to users, which in turn helped the popularity of the application to grow. Even though Vine has officially shut down, links are still going viral and get passed through all sorts of social media for users of all aspects to still watch and enjoy. The application literally isn’t even a real thing anymore and it’s still being used by so many users, through different social medias. If that’s not impressive, I don’t know what is.

A downfall Vine had was being strictly a mobile application rather than being available on a desktop as well as a mobile device. Snapchat has that same issue as well. Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, are all social media platforms that are accessible through a mobile application, or simply through a URL on a laptop or desktop. This accessibility through different locations is a turn on for users who may not always have access to strictly a mobile device. Even though Vine had this problem, posts were still able to be viewed through third party websites on both mobile and non-mobile devices.

Everyone used Vine for different purposes, making it a very versatile platform. However, the most popular Vines and Vine users are based on comedy. Below are some of the most popular videos that went viral through the years that Vine was up and running, and still trend through different social medias. Viewer discretion is advised if you have a thing against bad words, they are used quite a bit.