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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by justinator on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @12:42AM (#12083917) 

   > It's such a shame, really; arguably Twitter, much more so
   > than their competitors, tries to stick as close to the
   > original form of their product as they can. I admire that.
Except for that time they blocked third party access to their API. That was kinda big. [0]. I guess you could also say that this move supports your point of view, but those third parties were partly responsible for the popularity of the platform.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/03/twitte...

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Re:Vine isn’t growing and most of its top executives have left by niftich on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @01:17AM (#12084013)
Agreed, blocking API access was an overconfident move on their part, likely in the anticipation of display ads, and they never recovered.
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