Neowin News Feed for: Vine

Vine is 'back' from the dead, with thousands of old videos restored

David Uzondu — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:38:01 +0000

For those who miss Vine, a new project called Divine, backed by Jack Dorsey, is bringing it back from the dead, with over 100,000 old videos now available to watch. Read more...

Elon Musk says X is "looking into" bringing back Vine

Omer Dursun — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 08:22:01 +0000

Elon Musk's possible revival of Vine could disrupt the short-form video landscape and challenge TikTok's dominance. Read more...

Twitter is now looking to bring back the video-looping service Vine

Paul Hill — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:46:01 +0000

Twitter is allegedly looking at relaunching the video service Vine, which was shuttered several years ago. It comes as Elon Musk asked users if they'd like to see Vine relaunch in the future. Read more...

Vine resurrected in the form of Byte, out now for Android and iOS

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 12:28:01 +0000

After killing off Vine back in 2016, its creators have finally released a successor called Byte. The new app focuses on creating and sharing six-second looping videos on the social media platform. Read more...

Former Vine head joins Facebook's newly formed NPE team

Abhay V — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:12:01 +0000

Jason Toff, the former head of the short-video sharing app, Vine, will be joining Facebook for their newly formed apps division called 'NPE'. Not much is known of the project he will be working on. Read more...

Vine's successor Byte is coming in 2019

Timi Cantisano — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 23:54:01 +0000

If you've missed Vine, you might be in luck, as a new platform has just been announced, Byte, which is a new video looping platform being created by the co-founder of Vine, Dom Hofmann. Read more...

Vine could be making a comeback, co-founder tweets familiar logo

Timi Cantisano — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:42:01 +0000

It has been close to a year since the shuttering of Vine. If you have been yearning to use the app over the past year, you might be in luck. The app's co-founder could be resurrecting the service. Read more...

Vine creates an archive that will store clips from 2013 to 2017

Timi Cantisano — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 04:16:02 +0000

Vine shuttered its famous app in favor of something new and many were worried that the collection of Vine clips would be lost forever. Today, the company has launched an archive of previous clips. Read more...

PSA: This is your last chance to save your Vine videos

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:40:01 +0000

Vine will be transitioning to Vine Camera after today, as the company announced last year. That means users have only today left to download and save their six second creations. Read more...

Vine not shutting down, transitioning to 'Vine Camera'

Usama Jawad — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 09:34:01 +0000

Vine has clarified that it is not fully shutting down the service, but instead transitioning to a pared-down 'Vine Camera' app, with its website being transformed into an archive of Vines. Read more...

Rather than wither away, Vine could end up being sold by Twitter

Boyd Chan — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 10:32:01 +0000

Having itself been the reported target of acquisition over the last two months, Twitter is rumored to be entertaining bids for Vine, whose shutdown had been announced just over a week ago. Read more...

Pornhub extends an offer to purchase Vine

Timi Cantisano — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 19:04:01 +0000

After yesterday's news that Twitter was going to shut down Vine and discontinue its mobile apps, Pornhub has offered to purchase the service and if successful will offer content that is NSFW. Read more...

Twitter is shutting down the Vine mobile apps

Rich Woods — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:04:01 +0000

Twitter announced today that it will be shutting down all of the Vine apps. The company has not shared a timeline for when this will happen, but the Vine website will continue on. Read more...

Hacker finds security hole in Vine that allowed him to download the entire source code

Steven Johns — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:18:01 +0000

The Vine team at Twitter had a domain that allowed anybody - without authentication - to download their images for the Vine webapp. The vulnerability has since been fixed. Read more...

Vine is the latest to hop on board the Windows 10 train with new Universal app

Rich Woods — Wed, 04 May 2016 17:04:01 +0000

As of today, Vine for Windows 10 is now available in the Store on PCs and tablets. The Twitter-owned service is the latest in a growing selection of apps for Microsoft's newest Windows platform. Read more...

Microsoft highlights several new Universal Windows Apps that are on their way

Shreyas Gandhe — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:30:15 +0000

Microsoft has once again sent out a refresher of all the apps that will be coming in the Universal Windows App format in the near future, in addition to some new apps that were previously missing. Read more...

6sec for Windows Phone updated with refreshed UI, sort options and more

Timi Cantisano — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 00:14:01 +0000

Rudy Huyn, known for his contribution as an app developer for Windows Phone has updated 6sec, an Vine alternative app. The new version includes a refreshed UI, sort options and more. Read more...

Twitter updates Vine for Windows Phone with new features

Shreyas Gandhe — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:38:01 +0000

Twitter has delivered a big update for its Vine app on Windows Phone with a redesigned UI, more camera tools and Vine messages that bring it on par with those on Android and iOS Read more...

Twitter's new video service is coming in the next few weeks

Jett Goldsmith — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 00:46:01 +0000

Twitter's upcoming video service, a potential competitor to industry giant YouTube, is only a few short weeks away - and once launched, will allow users to edit and post lengthy videos. Read more...

Official Vine app released for Xbox One

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:55:39 +0000

The first official Vine app for a non-smartphone platform has just been released, as the social network has released a version of the service for Microsoft's Xbox One console. Read more...

Microsoft posts outtakes from new Surface commercial with Russell Wilson

John Callaham — Wed, 07 May 2014 23:58:16 +0000

Microsoft has posted a couple of quick outtakes from their most recent TV commercial, featuring Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson promoting the Surface Pro 2. Read more...

Microsoft's Nokia unit teases ... something on Vine

John Callaham — Wed, 07 May 2014 15:22:00 +0000

Microsoft has posted up a new and quick video clip on Vine that shows a number of old mobile phones falling like dominos as a teaser for an upcoming announcement. Read more...

Twitter bans 'explicit sexual content' on Vine, says some forms of nudity are OK

John Callaham — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 11:12:14 +0000

Twitter has now changed its Terms of Service for Vine, which now bans what it considers "explicit sexual content" from being posted via the video app, although some forms of nudity are allowed. Read more...

Vine profiles now accessible via browser

Anthony Tosie — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 21:47:28 +0000

Vine has updated its website to allow users to view their respective news feeds online as well as profiles. Only videos uploaded to the social network were previously available through the website. Read more...

Vine for Windows Phone updated to fix sign-in woes

Anthony Tosie — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 04:03:43 +0000

The official Vine app for Windows Phone 8 has been updated to resolve sign-in problems for users who were unable to access the app because of passwords that contain certain characters. Read more...

Users experiencing errors signing into Vine's new Windows Phone app [Update]

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:44:11 +0000

Some Vine users are having problems signing into the video-sharing service's new Windows Phone 8 app with their Twitter credentials, with some saying special characters in passwords may be the issue. Read more...

Official Vine app for Windows Phone released

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:26:43 +0000

The official Vine app for Windows Phone has finally been released following its announcement in July, with the app being essentially feature-complete when compared to its iOS and Android counterparts. Read more...

Twitter rolls out inline image and Vine previews to iOS, Android, and web

George Tinari — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 23:38:30 +0000

Twitter has updated its apps for iOS and Android as well as on the web with image and Vine previews that automatically appear in your timeline, plus some other design changes. Read more...

Did Twitter accidentally reveal its Vine Windows Phone 8 app?

John Callaham — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 18:29:28 +0000

Twitter may have inadvertently revealed its official Vine app for Windows Phone 8 in an image posted, and then later deleted, from a blog post earlier this week. Read more...

Vine to be released for Windows Phone

Anthony Tosie — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:21:30 +0000

Nokia has announced that Vine will be released for Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, though no exact release date for the video-sharing app has been provided. Read more...

Vine hits back at Facebook with major update

Ben Buffone — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 15:06:43 +0000

In an effort to win back users who have hopped over to Instagram, video sharing app Vine now boasts a major update including improved discovery and imagery tools, as well as numerous bug fixes. Read more...

Twitter Windows Phone 8 update adds Vine support and more

John Callaham — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:59:43 +0000

Microsoft has announced an update is available for the official Twitter app for Windows Phone 8 that adds a number of new features, including a way to view embedded Vine videos inside tweets. Read more...

Vine available for Android devices today [Update]

Anthony Tosie — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:13:55 +0000

Vine, Twitter's short-video sharing app, will make its way to Android sometime today. The app requires Android 4.0 or later, though some features will be missing at launch. Read more...

Microsoft turns to Vine to create cool Internet Explorer adverts

Max Slater-Robins — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:09:57 +0000

Microsoft have turned to Vine, a popular video-sharing app on iOS, to create cool new Internet Explorer 10 commercials that tout the changes that have been made to modernize the browser. Read more...

Vine, Twitter's video app, soon coming to Android

Ben Buffone — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:53:32 +0000

Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann has confirmed that an Android version of the wildly-popular video sharing app will be on the way "soon." By releasing later on Android, will the company see benefits? Read more...

Microsoft kills off social web application "Vine"

Tom Warren — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:02:49 +0000

Microsoft said on Friday that it will discontinue its Vine beta service on October 11. In an email to testers, Microsoft said the Vine beta had received positive feedback but that the company had taken the... Read more...