When Vine peaked in popularity with the general masses in 2013, it was everywhere. You couldn’t go on Facebook without seeing a couple of Funny Vines in your newsfeed. So, where has all the popularity gone? Is Vine dying off just because the initial ‘shock factor’ has worn off? The short answer is no.

A large majority of people don’t realize that Vine was actually founded in 2012 by a few independent developers named Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll. At this point in time, not many people had heard of the social network and it wasn’t until Twitter bought them out for $30 million that more people started to take notice. Ever since then, Vine has become Twitter’s new baby and they are showering it with attention. According to Alexa, Twitter is the 8th biggest website in the world, and has only gained popularity since it’s inception. It does not seem likely that such a huge corporation would let it’s newest acquisition die off, especially when it has found such a strong niche among teenagers. Instagram has even tried to replicate the success of Vine with 15 second long Instagram Videos, but hasn’t seemed to be able to reproduce the same magic of the 7-second video looping community. Continue reading Is Vine Dying? →