Vine might be getting a second life
Last October, Twitter announced that it was discontinuing the beloved app for Vine, its short-form video-sharing service that had existed since 2013. A year has gone by since users could post clips of dogs dancing to Toto and terrifying rubber ducks, but on Wednesday, Vine founder Dom Hofmann teased there might be a light at the end of the tunnel:
Hofmann first announced that he was working on "a follow-up to Vine" in November, although The Verge observed that there is "virtually no information about what Hofmann has in mind. We don't even know if he means another short-form video app similar to the original Vine, or just some other project that will look to build on the foundation Vine started." Learn more about who killed Vine here at The Week.
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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.