In October of last year we were a bit strange to learn that Vine, the popular video platform with a six-second limit, I was going to close when announcing it. A service that used those video clips of just seconds to demonstrate that there is another way to create apps and platforms based on an exact limit, such as Twitter's own character limit.
The company recently indicated that it would support the creation of these videos with a new camera app. Vine's official Q&A FAQ page confirms that the app will be available on January 17, at the same time that the community will finally close.
Anyway, you will be able to browse Vine videos on the site, although they will be converted into a clip archive. What is really important about the news is that the Vine Camera app will allow you to share your creations on Twitter, where videos that are less than 6,5 seconds in length will be played infinitely, just like animated GIFs.
Vine users will have until the January 17 to download the files from the Android and iOS apps (here is another way to do it). They can also be taken from the website, through an HTML file that contains the screenshots, such as comments, counters and revines, so little will be lost along the way.
In this way Twitter try to alleviate the damage done to a community that had been relegated to it to launch high-quality content and in which many users had trusted. Passing it to Twitter in this way, through the new app and having it played infinitely, is a weird way of trying to plug holes, when the real damage has already been done.