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I don't get it.

Why not make it Twitter's Dedicated Video App as vine already has a strong network which can be built upon.

Very soon Facebook will release their dedicated video app and Twitter will be looking clueless.

I don't get big companies

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Twitter has no idea what they're doing and they haven't for a very long time.

One of Twitter's goals is to not make it look like they don't know what they're doing.

They're still working on figuring out the rest of the goals.

Stealth mode

Vine's limitations held it back. Square video and 6 seconds does not a good video app make. In order to appeal to businesses that would actually pay for video (ad agencies, news) they'd have to completely remake the app to account for different aspect ratios and videos longer than 6 seconds.

When twitter.com already has videos that support those features why keep an antiquated app around?

Vine has had a "watch more" feature for longer videos in non-square formats for a while.

Too little, too late. I open the app about once every 1-2 months. I never knew about the "watch more" feature. At that point it's just like any other video app, begging the question of, "why use Vine"?

Twitter has another dedicated video app, Periscope.

To describe Vine and Periscope as "the same" because they are both "video apps" is like saying blueberries and a potato salad are the same because they're both food.

They're not the same. They are the same in that they are both dedicated video apps.

Whatever dedicated video app Facebook is going to release one assumes that it will probably be a lot more like Periscope than Vine.

I think it doesn't fit their 'live' mission.

Integrating two services of this scale isn't trivial or inexpensive, even for a big company. Especially for a big company that is laying people off.

The "integration" doesn't need to be incredibly sophisticated. Look at Periscope.

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