By Daniel Miller PUBLISHED: 12:29 EST, 5 June 2013 | UPDATED: 20:11 EST, 5 June 2013 Rickrolled: A teenager crashed Twitter's video app Vine by uploading a Rick Astley (pictured) music video A 16-year-old computer whizz-kid managed to crash the Android version of Twitter's video-sharing app Vine on the day of its release by uploading a Rick Astley music video. Will Smidlein, who lives just outside Cleveland, Ohio, sabotaged the app by rewriting computer code that prevents users from uploading videos more than six seconds long. The cheeky teenager chose the Rick Astley clip which is used in a widespread online joke known as Rickrolling, where internet users are unwittingly redirected to a web page playing the video.
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Prankster sabotaged Vine's Android app on the day of its release
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He rewrote the code that stops users from uploading videos more than six seconds long
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Quickly took to Twitter to apologise to Vine engineers for the trouble he had caused
'I did the @placeholder and within a couple minutes, I had a friend of a friend who works at Twitter engineering contact me and nicely asked me if I could take it down because it's kind of embarrassing.
'I did the RickRoll and within a couple minutes, I had a friend of a friend who works at @placeholder engineering contact me and nicely asked me if I could take it down because it's kind of embarrassing.