Twitter’s New Vine App Opens New Doors to Businesses

Twitter’s New Vine App Opens New Doors to Businesses

I’m fairly confident in saying that almost everyone who is in the communication field has a Twitter account. Less of those people though have Twitter’s new app called Vine. The app came about in October, although it wasn’t released on Twitter until January. Although it’s pretty new to the market it’s rapidly growing, and is currently the number 17 app.

Nice little screenshot of my friend Jimmy.

About Vine

Basically what Vine lets users do is post six-second videos on Twitter, Facebook and to the Vine community. You can either make a straight six-second video, or it gives you the option to do a stop-motion video. You can pause and restart whenever you want.

Here’s a cool Vine video

How can Vine be used?

Other than sharing funny or interesting videos with your friends, Vine could become a very useful tool for businesses and companies. Instead of sharing a picture or making a long, drawn-out video, companies can now make short clips to showcase their products or values. Vine has recently updated the app to allow embedding capabilities so that people can see the video rather than just the link. Major League Baseball has already made use of this new feature in their short video showing how to make a baseball.

I think that Vine is about to make a huge impression on the social media market. For those who don’t know about it yet, you will. You make, share and like videos. You can make them fun or you can make them informative. Top picks go to the front page for everyone to see.

While it does have a few issues to resolve such as privacy and the occasional pornographic video, they are working on fixing them. A warning has now been added before you download the app as well as the ability to report users.

I really enjoy Vine and I think that the app will make major strides in the near future. I urge you all to download it and try it out, and just have some fun.