Web developer Will Smidlein managed to bypass the six-second upload limit on Vine today, inserting the entirety of Rick Astley's immortal "Never Gonna Give You Up" into a post that was ultimately taken down by Twitter. Smidlein thought he had "broken Vine", as said in an earlier tweet. He had also tweeted that Twitter engineers had requested that he delete the post.
This long post happened on the same day that Vine became available to Android. Smidlein has been very tight-lipped about the situation, but has said that he will release the full story once the hole has been filled. It is estimated that Vine has 13 million users.
Smidlein has also been very mature about recovering from the situation. It appeared that his site had crashed for several minues, and had gained several hundred followers on Twitter. He also published a response to his Vine incursion on Throwww earlier this evening. The response to the event has been crazy on Twitter. He said in a tweet that he got so many "@ mentions", that his Google Glass just made one solid buzzing noise.
Overall, Will Smidlein has been the "Internet celebrity of the Evening", and has gotten attention from most of the major technology news organizations out there. Smidlein will be going for an internship at Pocket this summer in the Valley, and I'm curious if he'll get any job offers. Congrats again Will!
Below are some interesting tweets from Will:
Well, TechCrunch never asked me. I didn't use a jailbroken device at all. No idea where they got that.Shame they call themselves "news".
— Will Smidlein (@ws) June 3, 2013
Sorry, Twitter/Vine engineers. I tried to keep it quiet, but the internet never forgets. — Will Smidlein (@ws) June 3, 2013
So my Vine has gone semi-viral.The one that Twitter engineering asked me to take down.Fannntastic.
— Will Smidlein (@ws) June 3, 2013
