From today, the videos that you upload to Twitter and Vine can last up to two minutes and twenty seconds.
Twitter, owner of Vine app that even before today allowed to upload videos with duration of six seconds, announced the change to give competition to Instagram and Facebook. The first allows you to upload videos of one minute and the second does not have a set limit.
Before change the videos on Twitter had a limit 30 seconds long.
The change is more relevant in Vine, as it is the platform that gave rise to the creation of short videos. From Vine, it was that users began creating videos on other platforms that gave them more time for videos, as Instagram (in the beginning, the duration was 15 seconds) or Snapchat.
However , Vine promises to keep its essence. “We will continue faithful to what we are. Vines are a format to shorten the funniest, beautiful and amazing moments. Challenging traditional narrative and its format, [the vines] are very similar to the trailers. And as a great trailer, endear see the whole movie, “says Vine in the statement.
Vine lets you make videos up to 140 seconds long
the option to record videos of 140 seconds on Twitter began to be enabled users gradually starting Tuesday. in Vine, the option to record video with this duration is a beta that is starting from today.
in addition to these changes, Vine and Twitter now have a new way to watch videos continuously. When viewing a video of 140 seconds, the app suggests related more video to see. Similar to the carousel in Facebook for at finish watching a video, keep watching more similar videos.
Among other developments, Vine begin to distribute profits to the creators of most acclaimed Vines. the creators may place advertising at the beginning of a video and get compensation. Twitter will remain 30 percent and creators get the remaining 70 percent, according to Re / Code.
Last but not least, Twitter launched Engage, an app (for iOS) for video creators in the social network of microblogging to know how well received are receiving their creations. It is similar to Twitter Analytics, an integrated app that shows the engagement of the tweets function.
Changes in the length of the videos are important because they represent a way that Twitter aims to increase its number of users. Recently, Twiter made changes to the timeline, altering the chronological order and is making more flexible the limit of 140 characters for writing tweets.
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