Twitter launches iOS video sharing app Vine
One of the world’s largest social networks has launched a
video sharing app exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Vine – from Twitter – appears to compete with the array of video-only sharing apps landing on the market.
Vine is no different. You can follow other friends on Keek to see their streams of video updates, or share your videos to Twitter and Facebook.
The time limit on Vine videos is pretty short – up to six seconds – and it’s all organized in a simple running timeline that loops constantly.
Something that’s particularly different with Vine is that you don’t necessarily need to hit a record button to start shooting. Just touch and hold the screen to record, and then let go when the recording should stop.
After that’s done, upload the video to Vine, Twitter and Facebook.
Twitter knew it needed to expand from the basic offerings of 140-character updates and images, and this will help them.
One thing I’d like to see them improve is Vine’s ‘friend’ list. I needed to manually tell it to search my Twitter account for other users to follow, which is something I would think a Twitter app would do automatically.
Another wish is for Vine to help find friends via Facebook, a feature that the world’s largest social network has blocked.
Will you download and use Vine?
- Maurice Cacho, MSN Tech & Gadgets
Comments
You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.
Posted by: Karl Jones | Jan 29, 2013 1:30:49 AM
Well, most of the big social networks are copying what Instagram made famous. Nothing wrong about that at all.