What is Vine?
Vine is a video sharing app. The videos are 6 seconds and play on a loop.
History
- Vine was created by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll in June 2012
- Vine was bought out by Twitter October, 2012 for $30 million
- App was released January 24,2013
- Vine become the most downloaded April 9, 2013
- The web version came out May 1, 2014
- The Xbox One version came out October 14, 2014
Interesting Facts
- Vine is short for Vignette which means "a short impressionistic scene"
- Every 5 seconds, a Vine is tweeted
- Dunkin' Donuts was the first compony to use Vine as an entire television advertisement on September 9, 2015
- The most popular Vine hashtags are #loop, #selfie, #remake, #cute and #magic
- There are 2 million active users