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That's fucking stupid. I wasn't crazy about Vine but Twitter was first to market with a brandable property taht quickly became A Thing. It was the one innovative thing to come out of Twitter in the last few years, and now they're shutting it down. If I had any Twitter stock I would dump it all on this news.

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Well, first of all, Twitter bought Vine. So they did no innovation on that front. Secondly, I think it makes sense from a business standpoint for Twitter because they've incorporated it into Twitter, and they NEED to start making a profit and this will help. Twitter stock may actually rise a bit due to this news.

I'm not worried about that, I meant in the sense of putting out something innovative under their banner. The consumer is indifferent to whether something was developed in-house or acquired, but is not indifferent to whether a firm is regularly putting out new things or just being the same old same old. And Twitter has just been the same old for a really long time now. The only interesting thing on Twitter in the last year has been Donald Trump's warped personality :-/

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