[zzzzzzzzzman]

Wow, I really like Vine and am surprised that Twitter's visions for its path to profitability don't include such a flourishing community.

Sad news keeps coming today... :(

[yabatopia]

I can't help it, but I find it amusing to see Twitter and vision in the same sentence. I think the lack of vision is Twitter's biggest problem right now, and not having a dedicated CEO doesn't help.

[zzzzzzzzzman]

I agree, but surely as a public company there needs to be some kind of vision somewhere :)

[majewsky]

A surprising amount of companies have "make money" as their only vision. Twitter is just bad at making you think otherwise.

[imglorp]

Maybe you could explain what's appealing about Vine? A lot of people don't understand what it offers over a tube site.

[greendragon]

Animated gifs with audio. That's it. Also super easy to create from a camera phone, no video or gif editing skills needed.

I know at least some content producers on youtube will be happy. A lot of vine hate comes from them when random anonymous vine user uploads a tiny portion of their long video and gets tons of views and maybe some ad revenue (or at least takes away potential ad revenue from the youtuber). It's resulted in youtubers creating short clips by themselves on their channel or sister channels, but I can see the annoyance, if not fully understand the complaint since it's no different from the timeless complaint about media being easier and cheaper to distribute and consume than to create.