This new social network would be just as happy to stay small

Hello again and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. Countless defunct tech products are cherished icons of nostalgia. Vine may be unique for having become one practically the moment it ceased to exist. The social network, which consisted entirely of six-second video loops, hadn’t yet launched when it was acquired by Twitter in October 2012. Once it went live, it became a haven for silly, minimalist self-expression. The people who loved it really loved it. Yet it never quite captured enough of the larger company’s attention to become a business. In October 2016, Twitter announced that...