Twitter Officially Ends Vine, Will Replace It With Vine Camera App

After four years of being the vessel of funny memes and memorable six second videos, Twitter has officially announced that Vine will no longer be available and will be replaced by Vine Camera. The Vine Camera is a recording app that allow users to post their six second clips directly on twitter rather than having it on Vine.

Vine was launched as a platform to share six second video messages in early 2013.  Twitter bought the rights to the mobile app shortly after its launch.

The phasing out of Vine was first announced on Oct. 27 2016 via the app's official website.  In its official statement, the company has thanked the millions of Users who posted and shared their videos on the app and has announced that the mobile app will be discontinued in the coming months.

The end of the popular mobile app came on Tuesday Jan. 17 as Twitter officially took Vine offline. Though Twitter has pulled its plug on Tuesday, the social media company gave Vine users a chance to download their Vine videos before it finally shutdown the mobile app. Twitter gave Vine users up until Jan. 18 Wednesday to download their six second clips.

According to earlier reports, Twitter actually explored the possibility of selling the Vine mobile app to other companies. However, the Social Media Company eventually decided not to sell the rights to Vine. According to the report, Twitter apparently saw that the profit of selling its rights to Vine will not outweigh the risks of having another company take charge of the video sharing app.

Vine.co will reportedly stay online to serve as an archive for the videos that were already uploaded in Vine. However, after Tuesday, users will no longer be allowed to upload new six second video clips via the Vine mobile app. Though the mobile app is still listed as Vine in the app store, downloading it will actually launch the new Vine Camera app.