Twitter has launched a new app, Vine, “that lets you create and share beautiful, short looping videos”. The company is taking a interesting stance with the service, launching it as a standalone app and network — albeit one with strong hooks into Twitter. Its success, and failure, is less guaranteed than it might be otherwise.
At its heart, Vine lets you make and share six-second video clips. The app is clearly heavily influenced by the rebirth of the animated gif, because the videos automatically start playing, are muted by default (though a click turns sound on), endlessly loop, and must be between three and six seconds long. You aren’t going to be making movies with these, or even any sort of narrative video clip at all — it’s purely for sharing “moments”.
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