VINE

Vine Logo
Photo Courtesy of vine.co

With ever increasing popularity Vine is a combination of visual and audio communication. Vine allows people to create and share video clips that are six seconds long. With such a short amount of time, people are becoming ever more creative with how they record. What is amazing about Vine is the growth on the iPhone App store. According to BGR, it has been faster than many of the other popular apps such as WhatsApp, LinkedIn, and Chrome. However, what is really impressive is the fact it has grown seven times faster than Snapchat, which is another form photo, audio, and visual communication.

For Vine the biggest competition is Instagram, which allows people to not only upload video but photos as well. In April 2012, Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion. This caught the popular social media app Twitter’s attention. They new Vine would be to good of an opportunity to pass up. Twitter purchased Vine less than a year later for $970 million according to CNBC. 

Vine Logo
Photo Courtesy of twitter.com

Vine got it’s name from vignette, which is “a short impressionistic scene.” Vignette is also a photo filter offered by Twitter. When the Vine logo is turned upside down it displays the number six, which is how long the video loops run. For more fun facts check out CNBC.

As the app becomes ever more popular one of the things we will start to see are improvements to the software. Some of the downsides to the app mentioned on WebTrends, is that you cannot connect to Facebook or Twitter friends making it more difficult to connect and find people on the app. Another improvement we will hopefully see is a way to connect the app with your camera roll for saving and uploading videos you shoot on your phone itself.