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Toast - Vine

Toast - Vine

Sliced Bread
Apr 11, 2024 25 min
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About this episode

<p>Why was the video sharing platform, Vine, closed down?</p><p>Sean Farrington discovers what happened to the app which pioneered short, shareable videos on social media. </p><p>Sean speaks to one of Vine's founders, Rus Yusupov, the Vine content creator, Eric Dunn, and the BBC's Technology Editor, Zoe Kleinman.</p><p>Alongside them all analysing Vine's fortunes is the self-made millionaire and serial entrepreneur, Sam White.</p><p>Produced by Viant Siddique. Toast is a BBC Audio North production for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.</p><p>You can email the programme at toast@bbc.co.uk</p><p>Feel free to suggest topics which could be covered in future episodes.</p><p>Sliced Bread returns for a new batch of investigations in May. In the new series, Greg Foot will investigate more of the latest so-called wonder products to find out whether they really are the best thing since sliced bread. In the meantime, Toast is available in the Sliced Bread feed on BBC Sounds.</p>

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