Vine will live on as Vine Camera after Twitter shutters it
Vine's demise isn't so absolute after all. Twitter has said that the app will live on as Vine Camera, a pared down version that will still allow users to create six-second looping videos, share them on Twitter, and save them to their phones.
Image Source: Vine
Twitter is providing some respite for those left out in the cold by Vine’s impending demise, which it announced in late October. As it turns out, the Vine app will live on as Vine Camera, a pared down version of the original app that will still allow users to create those beloved six-second looping videos.
The difference is that instead of posting these videos directly to vine.co, you’ll have to contend with either publishing them on Twitter or saving them to your phone. But because the new app is intended to be a streamlined version of the original, you won’t be able to do any of the other things you can do on the current Vine app, like sharing your videos to Facebook and Tumblr.
Vine users can save any video that they previously shared, but downloading files from the desktop site will include an index.html file with their Vine captions and data like the number of likes, comments, and revines. On the other hand, Vines downloaded from the app will not come with any captions or additional information.
That said, you’ll have to download any videos you’d like to save before the switch to Vine Camera takes place.
Vine’s website will still exist once the transition kicks off in January, but it will only do so as an archive for older videos, and will not accept any more new ones.
Source: Vine (Medium)
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