Vine App Becomes Vine Camera on January 17

In October last year, Twitter announced its intention to kill Vine, the video sharing service that has become popular for funny content shared on the platform. It was later announced that Vine would be replaced by Vine Camera app.

In a post on Vine forums, the team announced that Vine Camera will go live on January 17. Vine users will be notified of this through the app and some of the features will be retained. This means that users would be able to create 6.5 second looping videos and post them on Twitter or save the content to the phone’s camera roll.

However, once the Vine Camera goes live, users won’t be able to download Vines from the app. Changes will be made to the Vine website, as well. It appears that the website will transition to an archive of Vines t...