History of Vine - Vine was founded by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll in June 2012.
- The company was acquired by Twitter in October 2012 for a reported $30 million. - It originated in New York.
- Launched on January 24, 2013, by December 2015 Vine had 200 million active users
What Is It?
- A short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. - Vine's social network and can be shared on other services such as Facebook and Twitter. Vine's app can also be used to browse through videos posted by other users.
- Users could make money off the site by getting a lot of followers and like like youtube and Instagram and other social websites.
Interesting facts
- These are the countries that vine is most popular ,United States: 38.2%, Mexico: 8.1% , United Kingdom: 5.7%, Turkey: 4.6% , Japan: 3.2%
- How many Vines tweet per second? (Five)
- You flip / reverse the Vine logo, it reveals the number 6…the length of the videos on Vine.
- The Vine app, for both iPhone and Android users, is available in 19 different languages: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Thai and Turkish. Vine for Android is also available in two additional languages: Filipino and Polish.
- If every Vine user recorded just a single six-second video, there would be over 2,334 hours of footage. This would be longer than looping the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy 250 times.