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Never used Vine, and the videos from it never worked on my browser, but this is truly shocking. Like, Google Reader shutdown level shocking. Twitter is seriously clueless if they weren't able to make any use of such a popular service. Especially when Periscope is still running somehow. Though it's only a matter of time for that too now.

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Periscope may stick around for a while only because of the current obsession with live video. As soon as Facebook gives up on live (or at least stops focusing so much on it), Twitter will follow suit and fold up Periscope. If I were an engineer on that team, I'd do some proactive job hunting.

They mentioned Periscope during their live demo at the Apple event, so I would hope it stays for a while.

Looks pretty clear that Facebook and Twitter are all-in on live video for the medium to long term. Twitter even has live broadcasting deals with NFL, MLB and NBA.

I'm not sure that translates to full support for any random twitter user to be doing 'live' broadcasts. It may not be a huge impact on the infrastructure, but when cost-cutting comes up again, unless they're monetizing it somehow, I'd expect "random joe live-video broadcasting" to be on the chopping block.

MLB? NFL? NBA? I'm sure money's being exchanged to make it worthwhile to handle that.

Agreed. I wasn't including professional broadcasts in my comments about Periscope. There will always be a market for live pro sports, newscasts, etc.

For an engineer not to be actively looking, you have to believe that Twitter will be around for the foreseeable future. That seems like a sucker's bet, to me.

They'll lose to Twitch long-term.

It all comes down to the engagement metrics. Facebook and Twitter will stick with live video as long as people keep watching. Same reason Twitter pulled Periscope viewing in to the main app - helps them pump up the numbers.

I seriously doubt this will happen. From personal experience, I see more and more people using live on Fb & Twitter, it's even starting to engage the older generations. And from a big picture perspective, video, and motion formats in general, are definitely the future.

geez lol. Sounds like someone got seriously burnt by live video to think that.

I can't wait for that day to come. Facebook just can't do live video competently.

A majority of the Vine content I watched was compilations people made on YouTube, and a lot of those compilations have moved on from Vine, to Instagram and Snapchat.

I'm not suggesting Vine was superseded per se, as its users were generating a ton of content even to this moment, but at least from my perspective it seems its main users have had suitable alternatives available to them for a while.

Yeah - YouTube wins because it directly generates income for creators, Snapchat wins because it's access to a different demographic in a unique way, Vine had great momentum and made creation easy, but never had a particularly strong USP so there's little loyalty to it as it's own platform for creators to drive traffic to.

If Jack looks at Twitter as fulfilling some sort of social purpose, Periscope falls much more into that scope than Vine.

At this point Vine isn't really all that unique anymore. Facebook, instagram, snapchat and twitter all do what it did. I'm not very surprised by this at all.

I somehow had no idea that Twitter had a video function similar to Vine, and I use the app a few times a week.

They have video creation tools aimed at very specific length, and in doing so, have many videos within this format?

Never drove a car but when I did I hit people.

That's funny, I've always had the same experience with Vine--website always took a long time to load, then videos would hiccup a lot, if they loaded at all.

> Never used Vine, and the videos from it never worked on my browser

Shocking, shocking I say!

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