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Shots Studios rebrands from selfie app to social star video factory
Twitter once tried to buy Shots for $150 million to score its 3 million rabid teen users, a source tells TechCrunch. But the Justin Bieber-funded selfie app developer dreamed of a different destiny, where it would become the “Saturday Night Live” of the mobile generation. The Shots app grew to a peak of almost 8 million users, but ultimately it was too difficult to compete… Read More
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Squeezing video blood from Twitter’s stone
After watching other social networks get rich off of video, Twitter’s tuning in.
Brevity that inspires information density has always been what’s magical about Twitter. In 140 characters or six seconds you could laugh or learn something. But Vine’s tiny time limit and the 30-second max on videos uploaded to Twitter was choking out creativity and pushing creators elsewhere. Read More
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Vine releases a Watch button because scrolling is too much work
Vine, Twitter’s social network turned entertainment platform, is today announcing a new way to consume content on the app.
The company is introducing a “Watch” button, which will let users watch a particular channel or account without needing to scroll. When a user presses the watch button on a certain account or channel, videos in that feed will play back-to-back… Read More
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Peach Creator Just Released A Web Version, But Is That Enough To Juice Activity?
You can now message your friends on the web version of Peach, a new chat app created by the founder of Vine, Dom Hofmann.
The iOS app became a viral hit in Silicon Valley after it first launched at the beginning of this year. Someone else even made an unofficial web and Android version of the app called Nectarine. Read More
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Peach Is A Slick New Messaging App From The Founder Of Vine
Chat chat chat, talk talk talk. We love it, you love it. Messaging apps are the hot for 2016 (again) and there’s seemingly a niche platform for all of us. There’s also big platforms for the rest of the world like Messenger, WhatsApp, Line, Snapchat and Hangouts (and tons more).
One new app, Peach, is pretty interesting. Peach was created by the founder of Vine, Dom Hofmann. Read More
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Vine Gets A Personalized Channel Just For You
If you’re a Vine user then you know that finding new clips can be difficult. I rely mostly on my network to surface really funny Loops, but the team wants to make it easier for you. Today it has introduced a new channel within the app called “For you.” Here’s what Vine had to say about it today: Our home feeds on Vine are filled with posts from the accounts we follow… Read More
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Now You Can Steal Any Vine’s Audio To Jump On The Remix Bandwagon
Vine is a never-ending series of inside jokes. Every day, some weird video or audio clip becomes the trend and everyone races to make their own remix. Now you can play along without any extra editing tools with Vine’s new audio remix button. Just tap the three-dot more button below any Vine, hit “Make an audio remix”, and you can then shoot or upload a video with the… Read More
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Twitter And Vine Choose Hearts Over Stars And Smileys
Twitter’s making changes and nothing is sacred. Today’s change, while not as dramatic as making tweets editable or more than 140 characters, is definitely something that you’ll notice. The stars are out. So is the word they represent…”favorite.” In? Hearts. And the word “like.” Vine’s getting hearts, too, so the smiley faces are out.… Read More
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Dorsey: “Twitter Is Getting Easier To Use Every Single Week,” TV Ad To Premiere During World Series
During Twitter’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Jack Dorsey was joined by COO Adam Bain and CFO Anthony Noto. The call was broadcasted live on Periscope for the second straight time. Growth didn’t appease Wall Street, but it’s early days for some of Twitter’s latest product changes, including Moments and Polls. The company continues to tout the over billion people who are… Read More
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