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Ah...the results of the race to be the "Instagram of Video". Vine is no different than any number of recent video sharing apps. Vine does nothing new but sets new arbitrary time limits on the videos they support. Just like the others Vine will try to convince you that through focus groups they have found "3 second" videos will revolutionize video sharing and discovery, but this is nothing new. Examples: Threadlife: S…
The only thing I miss is the ability to view more if I find something interesting. Perhaps this restriction is exactly why its so effective, though.
Ah...the results of the race to be the "Instagram of Video". Vine is no different than any number of recent video sharing apps. Vine does nothing new but sets new arbitrary time limits on the videos they support. Just like the others Vine will try to convince you that through focus groups they have found "3 second" videos will revolutionize video sharing and discovery, but this is nothing new. Examples: Threadlife: S…
Hell, C pointers have been doing it with 4 and 8 bytes for ages! :)
Man, I love this.
PS: In the end if this proves to be something user FB will buy it and then we'll have a change in the user terms, and... You get e idea.
The best answer to this is... Who cares anyway? PS: In the end if this proves to be something user FB will buy it and then we'll have a change in the user terms, and... You get e idea.
Ah...the results of the race to be the "Instagram of Video". Vine is no different than any number of recent video sharing apps. Vine does nothing new but sets new arbitrary time limits on the videos they support. Just like the others Vine will try to convince you that through focus groups they have found "3 second" videos will revolutionize video sharing and discovery, but this is nothing new. Examples: Threadlife: S…
I believe the difference between other apps etc is instead of capturing one continuous shot, Vine allows punctuated recording. In other words you can collate a selection of a few snips of video which Vine auto-generates into a longer combined version.
Sure you can do this and upload this to YouTube etc but I haven't seen anyone execute that as well as the Vine team.
However, for it to be successful Twitter (which acquired Vine before launch) doesn't need Vine to have users.
What Twitter needs/wants with Vine is engagement on Twitter (it doesn't necessarily need engagement within Vine, if it does that a bonus) because if there's engagement brands will create Vine's - which Twitter can then monetize.
Sure the app can share to Facebook too, but Twitter's goal with that is to grab your social graph (hence find your Facebook friends which has since been blocked) which then encourages users to "follow" each other on Twitter - again helping it to monetize with advertisers.
Twitter could have done this through encouraging advertisers to create short video ads on YouTube etc instead of Vine but then there is no value for Twitter as they can't tell advertisers how many people saw the video organically or because of the ad.
That's the real goal of Vine, users are just a "bonus".
This is pretty awesome and I can't quite explain why. It seems to have a similar quality to the things the people in /r/asmr like. The only thing I miss is the ability to view more if I find something interesting. Perhaps this restriction is exactly why its so effective, though.