( CNN ) -- Oh , Rickrolling . Even on Vine , Twitter 's app that lets users shoot and share six-second videos , the Web is never gon na give you up . A Cleveland teen-ager hacked Vine on Monday , flouting the app 's strict time limit and uploading all 3 minutes , 33 seconds of `` Never Gon na Give You Up , '' the '80s pop hit turned bait-and-switch Internet meme . `` I think I broke Vine , '' 16-year-old Will Smidlein tweeted Monday night . In his Twitter bio , Smidlein lists himself as a Web developer . Based on his ability to share the joys of Rick Astley with Vine 's 13 million users , it 's an apt description . Vine became available for Google 's Android operating system on Monday . Smidlein , who had experience developing for Android , translated the app 's code into a readable format , then tinkered with parts of the program that lets users upload posts . In an interview with tech-news site The Verge , Smidlein declined to say exactly how he bypassed the 6-second video limit and said he never meant for his prank to go public . `` Honestly , it was just for my friends and the people who follow me on Twitter and Vine , '' he said . Smidlein said he was quickly messaged by a Twitter engineer who asked him to take the video down . He did , but by then its viral run had begun . `` Sorry , Twitter/Vine engineers , '' he wrote . `` I tried to keep it quiet , but the internet never forgets . '' Twitter did not immediately reply to a message seeking comment for this story . Smidlein has said he 'll write more about what he did once the exploit is patched . He apologized on the site several times to `` the engineers whose day I ruined with my stupid messing around . '' But it sounds like he was being harder on himself than anyone else . `` Vine , you 're a bunch of bullies , '' one reader posted on a Mashable article . `` Your coding was weak and got exploited -- and you are n't thanking this kid for discovering that for you ? ? Kid , do n't apologize . It 's their job . They should be paying you . '' Another agreed . `` What do I think ? '' she wrote . `` I think Vine should hire him . '' Rickrolling started in 2007 as an in-joke on the anything-goes pages of 4chan and became an Internet phenomenon . Usually , a user will post a provocative looking link ( Web lore says the first was supposedly a preview of the much-anticipated `` Grand Theft Auto IV '' video game ) that instead -- surprise ! -- takes Web surfers to Astley 's blue-eyed soul hit . It has since reached unprecedented heights for Web memes . Astley 's video has received 64 million views on his official channel and another 68 million on a version titled `` Rickroll 'd '' that was uploaded in 2007 . It was briefly the destination of every single YouTube video during a 2008 April Fool 's joke by Google and became an April 1 gag once again thanks to a bipartisan 2011 effort in the Oregon legislature .
16-year - old developer ` ` Rickrolls '' Twitter 's Vine app . Teen posted three - and - a - half - minute video to site that allows only short videos . He uploaded the video at Twitter 's request , but the Web already took notice . Rickrolling is a bait - and - switch joke spawned in 2007 on 4chan .