Vine! The New Favorite Social Network Among Brands
If Twitter had been created as a video platform, it would surely be very similar to Vine, the new favorite social network among brands, young people and celebrities.
Vine, a social network created with a major focus of attention in the mobile market, lets you share videos of up to 6 seconds taken with the phone to a group of followers. Just like “Twitter“, Vine lets you follow interesting people and be followed back as well, and one can find all the content created by other users in a feed that is continuously updated just like in Twitter.
It’s probably due to the similarity between the two social networks that in September of 2012, just 3 months after its launch, Twitter acquired Vine for $30 million, incorporating its founders to its staff and by giving the App even more of their own features such as the #hashtags, i.e. labels that allow you to identify the theme of a video, or the “retweets” which here, on Vine, are called “Revines”. Continue reading
