Jack Dorsey says Shutting Down Vine is his Biggest Regret

Internet enthusiasts in the early 2000s often mourn the death of Vine, a popular short-form video app and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has said that taking off vines is his biggest regret. In a Twitter, thread users commented that Vine "used to sell hope." Twitter acquired an app that allows you to share short video clips in 2012.

Twitter shut down Vine in 2016 because video platforms are struggling to keep its top creators employed. As a result, Vine's main stars started leaving for better benefits at competitors including Facebook and Google's YouTube.

Twitter was also suffering from sluggish user growth, and companies are reportedly considering acquiring the platform. Among them were Disney and Google. On the day Twitter announced the closure of Vine in late 2016, it announced that it would dismiss more than 300 employees, or 9% of the company's global workforce.

However, Vine may have left, so TikTok can be run in several ways. A short video-sharing platform launched in the same year that Vine was closed created new content creators and became the center of online pop culture.

Some internet users compare the two apps and point to videos that feature what many call "serious vine energy." The TikTok app for short videos also has a "radiate vine energy."