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Twitter May Save Vine by Selling it (techcrunch.com)
Internet products come and go. Twitter announced late last month that it will be shutting down its micro-video platform Vine. But the fate of Vine, which has since received a lot of support, could change. Twitter has received a large number of bids from interested parties looking to buy the app, reports TechCrunch. From the article: One source says that at least some of the offers are for less than $10 million, indicating Twitter might not generate significant revenue directly from selling Vine. However, Vine could still benefit Twitter even if it's owned by someone who would help it thrive and retain the strong integration between the two apps. Vine content plays instantly in the Twitter stream, bolstering its current parent company's quest to serve more video that could attract user engagement.
vine is not dead. it is twitter itself that "can't monetize,.. can't sell" itself. in your words it is twitter that is dead.
alleged social networking/communicating/media site twitter became a zombie, when it betrayed its primary purpose by censoring and banning adventurous and broad minded members of 'society and network', for holding and expressing, not politically correct, rude (even 'hateful'), and intellectually diverse(and thus sometimes emotionally hurtful), views, to create a safe spaces for sick, weak (only the weak will confuse words with criminal actions), and closed minds of the herd.
twitter is free to do that, but must accept the consequence; one can't thrive by merely pandering to the weak minded herd. in fact one goes bankrupt and die. slowly.
vine merely got infected by that zoomie twitter