On October 27, 2016, Twitter officially closed the doors on Vine. As of the time of publication, Twitter said no Vines will be deleted, and the website will stay online. Twitter will notify users before making any changes to the app or website, the BBC reported. Vine has been around for four years. Twitter gave no reason for the closure, the BBC said, but the company is laying off about 9% of its workers.
Some are more apathetic to Vine’s death:
Guess we’ll all have to live our lives in bursts of longer than 6 seconds now… #RIPVine
At least we don’t have to deal with annoying Vine personalities anymore #RIPVine
Others are truly mourning the now-dead social media platform:
When you’re happy that talentless Vine celebs are now without a career but remember those cute animal vids will be gone. #RIPVine
Wowwwww, RIP Vine.
It’s as if millions of teenagers cried out in terror.
Something unpredictable but in the end was right I hope you had the Vine of your life #RIPvine
Many users started mourning Vine back in August, when it became obvious that the platform was on death row:
Damn it’s over….. 😢😅 IG done did it again #ripsnap #ripvine ⚰⚰ t.co/CAETgaDeUq