In keeping with Twitter’s theme,
videos created on Vine are very short. In fact, videos can only be six
seconds or less. This will keep long-winded videos off the service, and
just like tweets themselves, everything needs to get to the point.
Between the short video clips, and the fact that the app is able to
record sound, it should be easy enough for Vine users to get their point
across in the time allotment.
Creating videos is as simple as
holding a finger on the screen to record, and letting go to stop. You
can stop as few or as many times as you want, so you can record one
continuous six second video or a bunch of short clips. It only records
while touching, so you can change the shot and tell a brief story though
the videos without actually having to do any editing.
The videos
are embedded directly in Tweets, just like a photo shared on a supported
image service. Videos can be played on the Twitter website or on the
Twitter mobile app. However, on the mobile application, the videos do
not loop as they do on the desktop version of Twitter.
Here’s an example of a Tweet made with Vine:
https://twitter.com/sideox/status/294511424808550400
One
thing Twitter neglects to mention in its official announcement of Vine
is that users can also share videos on Facebook. However, my Vine posts
were not showing up on my Facebook Timeline. The app comes with its own
social network, so users can share videos within the Vine network even
if they don’t have a Twitter or Facebook account.
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