Vine, Twitter's new video sharing platform, is the social "It Girl" of the moment. Everyone from average users to businesses is using it to illustrate odd 6-second moments. However, the oddest and maybe most important by far may be what NBC's New York City news affiliate just caught: A 6-second Vine clip of a dolphin stuck in the waters near one of New York City's harbors.
The #dolphin stuck inside the #Gowanus Canal. Watch live: bit.ly/WYYmKa vine.co/v/b5PlQO6lQId— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) January 25, 2013
Clearly taken from one of the station's news helicopters, the quick clip shows the gray fins, body and emerging bottle-nosed head of the stranded beast. At the time of the clip, the dolphin was stuck inside the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn.
As of this writing, no one knows how the dolphin got there or the fate of the still-stranded animal, but capturing the mammal's plight on the nascent social media platform could be a watershed moment for Vine. It's for animation, fun, quick thoughts and, now, news.