Twitter videoapp android series#

Shortly later, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo posted the same clip and it was official: Vine had landed.

Twitter videoapp android series#

Yesterday, Vine announced its arrival to the iTunes App Store with a tweet from co-founder and general manager Dom Hofman that contained a short, looping series of video clips showing how steak tartare is made. And, of course, posts can also be shared to Facebook and Twitter. The short, looping videos appear on users’ Vine profiles, where all posts are public for now (more visibility controls are promised for the future). This tight restriction echoes Twitter’s 140-character limit, making Vine a video-sharing service that operates like the microblogging platform but also has the potential to garner an Instagram-like following. The video can be shot all at once or can be arranged from a few clips – but the six-second rule always applies. The app lets users record up to six seconds of video, complete with sound, that plays back in a loop. Vine, the video-sharing start-up in question, was bought up by Twitter in October last year even before its app had officially launched. Confused? Think shareable, condensed video embedded in your Twitter feed and you’re on the right track. While companies are vying to create the ‘Instagram of video’, Twitter just went ahead and bought a start-up to launch a service that’s the Twitter of the Instagram of video.