Mark Zuckerberg gave the order to kneecap Vine, emails show

The day we are born is the day we begin to die, and the same was true for the beloved but ill-fated app, Vine.

Mark Zuckerberg personally made the decision to revoke Vine’s ability to connect users to their Facebook friends, a recently published 2013 email shows. Zuckerberg’s role in the power play comes from a trove of internal Facebook documents, published Wednesday by UK lawmakers, that reveal Facebook’s inner dealings and approach to working with third party apps.

Specifically, Zuckerberg gave an employee the thumbs up to cut off Vine’s access to a Facebook feature that allowed Vine users to find and add their Facebook friends on the platform.  Read more…

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