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January 28, 2013

Vine: Six Seconds of Crap

John Dvorak, PC Magazine


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. Instead of tweeting clever remarks, we will be getting six-second mini-dramas. Whole stories will be told in six seconds, just watch. This nonsense will chew up as much of our time as those cat videos.

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TAGGED: social networking, Twitter, Vine

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