Android smartphone users get access to app for the 6-second looping videos, with a zoom feature not present on iOS (Credit: Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET) Twitter is bringing Vine, a 6-second looping video application, to Andorid, months after rolling out an for iOS. Related stories Instagram's Systrom: We're 'not a photography company' Watch a brain surgery over Twitter, Instagram, and Vine Stellar examples of 6-second marketing on Vine Vine adds front-facing camera functionality Tribeca Vine film contest winners are delightful, disturbing Vine, which launched on January 24 and has climbed to 13 million users, is now available to people with Android smartphones. They get many of the same features: easy video creation with automatic playback and sound; Explore to discover popular posts and see what's trending; and Find Friends, to find and invite people. Plus Twitter added a feature unique to Android: zoom. Topics: Media Tags: Twitter Joan E. Solsman Joan E. Solsman is a staff writer for CNET focused on digital media. She previously wrote for Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal. She bikes to get almost everywhere in New York City and has been doored only once. Sick of Apple's EarPods tendency to slip out of your ears while you're doing something as mundane as walking around? Check out the EarSkinz 2.
Android smartphone users get access to app for the 6-second looping videos, with a zoom feature not present on iOS
(Credit: Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET)
Twitter is bringing Vine, a 6-second looping video application, to Andorid, months after rolling out an for iOS.
Related stories
- Instagram's Systrom: We're 'not a photography company'
- Watch a brain surgery over Twitter, Instagram, and Vine
- Stellar examples of 6-second marketing on Vine
- Vine adds front-facing camera functionality
- Tribeca Vine film contest winners are delightful, disturbing
Vine, which launched on January 24 and has climbed to 13 million users, is now available to people with Android smartphones.
They get many of the same features: easy video creation with automatic playback and sound; Explore to discover popular posts and see what's trending; and Find Friends, to find and invite people.
Plus Twitter added a feature unique to Android: zoom.
Joan E. Solsman is a staff writer for CNET focused on digital media. She previously wrote for Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal. She bikes to get almost everywhere in New York City and has been doored only once.
Sick of Apple's EarPods tendency to slip out of your ears while you're doing something as mundane as walking around? Check out the EarSkinz 2.
