{"id":262425,"date":"2016-10-27T16:28:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T16:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=262425"},"modified":"2016-10-27T16:28:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T16:28:41","slug":"twitter-says-it-is-closing-down-video-sharing-service-vine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=262425","title":{"rendered":"Twitter says it is closing down video sharing service Vine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Twitter has announced it is to close its video sharing service Vine about four years after it launched.<\/p>\n<p>Vine let people share six-second-long video clips that played on a loop.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter did not give a reason for the closure, but earlier on Thursday it announced it was cutting 9% of its workforce following slow growth of the social network.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the coming months we&#8217;ll be discontinuing the [Vine] mobile app,&#8221; the company\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"http:\/\/medium.com\/@vine\/important-news-about-vine-909c5f4ae7a7#.cpkhlfj2p\">said in a blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter acquired Vine before it had officially launched in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>It has since integrated a separate video facility into Twitter&#8217;s main platform. It also acquired and launched the livestreaming app Periscope.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing is happening to the apps, website or your Vines today,&#8221; the blog added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ll be able to access and download your Vines. We&#8217;ll be keeping the website online because we think it&#8217;s important to still be able to watch all the incredible Vines that have been made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It added that users would be notified before it made any changes to the Vine app or website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has announced it is to close its video sharing service Vine about four years after it launched. Vine let people share six-second-long video clips that played on a loop. Twitter did not give a reason for the closure, but earlier on Thursday it announced it was cutting 9% of its workforce following slow growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":262453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[3020,13094,13095],"class_list":["post-262425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-technology-news","tag-vine","tag-vine-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/262453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}