Vine & It's Users

This year, Vine decided that they would be discontinuing their media platform. This caused a huge uproar because of how popular Vine was. In 2012 this site became live, and since then it has grown into having over 200 million users, which then sparked the popularity. In 2016 they decided that Vine wasn’t going to be a social media platform anymore, so they decided to take it away from its users. However, the users were not happy about this because now their every day of source entertainment was gone. Also including those who dedicated their time and effort into creating Vines that started their stardom. In an article written by, Ismail Erkan called “Vine”: Do You Miss It?” it talks about how this engaging social media account had the ability to latch onto other social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter in the sense of capturing more viewers, which then created more users (4). However because the Vine account has discontinued but still has kept the content online for users to still view their vines and other vines, people have changed their account names to their other social media names so that their following doesn’t drop. I am or was Vine user, but I never fully used Vine for what it was. I liked posts and “re-vined” them, but I didn’t put time in effort into Vine as some users to gain a huge following; like most users, I was only on Vine for the entertainment.

Erkan, Ismail. "Vine": Do You Miss It? Electronic Word of Mouth on the Social Networking Site, Vine." International Journal of Business and Information 9 (2014): 461-73. Print.