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Twitter adds loopy videos with Vine integration

Twitter users can now add six-second looping videos to their daily 140-character vignettes using technology the company bought from the developer start-up Vine. "Like Tweets, the brevity of videos on Vine (6 seconds or less) inspires creativity. Now that you can easily capture motion and sound, we look forward to seeing what you …

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FAIL

Chromium on Ubuntu 11.04

<< says it all

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Meh

And now for out next feature

More inane rubbish

Anonymous Coward

Six seconds? Long enough for a German grumble flick then.

Anonymous Coward

For cretins that haven't heard of Google+ obviously.

I mean what can you say in 6 seconds of video....

It's hilarious how Facebook and Twitter are scrambling to copy Google (Although with Google owning Maps, YouTube, Picasa for sources, all their attempts are inferior)....

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Coffee/keyboard

Inspires... CREATIVITY?

"Like Tweets, the brevity of videos on Vine (6 seconds or less) inspires creativity..."

Huh, I'll be the judge of that...

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Re: Inspires... CREATIVITY?

No, no, they refer to the other meaning of the verb 'inspire'.

"Vine inspires creativity... and exhales nausea" (or excretes weborrhea, but that's another bodily function).

LOLcatz

6 seconds sounds ideal for little Fluffy's antics - pounce ....6 secs ... pounce ... 6 secs ... etc

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Long live the animated gif

I'm sure this will be as useful as that other cesspool of animated junk, tumblr.

Stop

Short video clips on Twitter?

As if I weren't bombarded with enough phony, pornographic follow requests or whatever already on my unused account. Now they get video clips too.

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Happy

They have to follow the trend

Nowadays, memes are often animated. They cannot let users go somewhere else for that, now can they?

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sarcasm/Oh Joy!/sarcasm

Tech marches on! Forget sound bites, we now have sight bites!

(Are they still taking applications for that one-way trip to Mars?)

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GIF ?

Six seconds of looping video - so that'll be an animated GIF then?

The 1990s called, they want their technology back.

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I'd like to see .....

... a video of the average Twitter user attempting to make a compelling/interesting/useful six seconds video. What's that you say?.....It would take six seconds?

Paris Hilton

This can only be for Porn

Enough time for a money shot I guess :P

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