# Professor Scott Galloway comments on Twitter shutting down Vine

1 Faculty News October 27, 2016 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](http://www.wsj.com/articles/twitters-vine-shutdown-shows-split-between-apps-popularity-profits-1477607776) -- "'If Vine was housed inside a company that was growing at 30% a year…it would have survived,' said [Scott Galloway](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway), founder of consumer-brand research firm L2 Inc. and a marketing professor at New York University. For Twitter, 'not growing its user base, a part-time CEO and disgruntled investors—all of that adds up to forced focus.'"

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