Vine

Twitter axes Vine video service

Vine let people share six-second-long video clips that played on a loop.

Twitter did not give a reason for the closure, but earlier on Thursday it announced it was cutting 9% of its workforce following slow growth of the social network.

"In the coming months we'll be discontinuing the [Vine] mobile app," the company said in a blog.

Vine adds Shazam-like song tagging creation features

The Twitter-owned video network has added a Shazam-like song tagging feature and a tool for creating seamless audio loops.

Exclusive to iOS for the time being, Snap to Beat helps Viners create "perfect" or "seamless loops" that continuously play without glitching.

"Music has been part of Vine's culture since the beginning," said the Vine team in a blog post.