Vine Is Closing Down, and the Internet Can’t Stand It
Marlene Breverman stashed this in Twitter
What went wrong? One theory: Instagram ate it.
http://nytimes.com/2016/10/28/technology/vine-is-closing-down-and-the-internet-cant-stand-it.html
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"If you picture social video as a colorful ecosystem full of emoji and chat bubbles, you really should try to think of it more as a jungle — a place where the strong eat the weak.
Periscope ate Meerkat. Instagram’s new video features might be chewing on Snapchat. And Facebook Live is trying to gobble up everything in sight."
Interesting theory that Instagram and maybe Snapchat and Facebook ate into Vine.
Maybe some Vine traffic moved to YouTube, too.
8:08 AM Oct 28 2016