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HowAboutWe Uses Vine to Promote Book - Posted May 13, 2013
Online dating site HowAboutWe has released a new dating guide and to promote the Book, the site has produced a series of videos on Vine. Over the next two weeks, the site will release a series of ... [AppNewser]

Have Teenagers Taken Over Vine? - Posted May 10, 2013
The staff of BuzzFeed FWD recently conducted an unscientific study to assess what's changed about Vine since its launch in January. Their finding? The teens have taken over, turning Vine into "Snapchat in p... [AllTwitter]

Social Media Newsfeed: YouTube Paid Subscriptions | Facebook Home - Posted May 10, 2013
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The Top 100 Vines in Vine's First 100 Days - Posted May 9, 2013
It's only been 100 days since Vine first appeared on Twitter and users are already sending out 5 Vine videos every second. Video technology company Unruly analyzed 10 million Vines over a one-month period to better understand th... [SocialTimes.com]

The Wrong Path? Facebook Cuts Off Access To Find Friends API From Social Network's App - Posted May 6, 2013
Social network Path became the latest application to lose access to Facebook's ... [AllFacebook]

Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook Earnings | Twitter Trends - Posted May 2, 2013
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Vine App Update Allows Front-Facing Videos, To Delight Of Wiseasses Everywhere - Posted April 30, 2013
Online is playground for wiseasses. Twitter knows this (how could it not?) and now, by extension or osmosis or what have you, so does Vine. And the six-second video maker just released an update that demonstrates its complete ninja-like mastery o... [AllTwitter]

Social Media Newsfeed: TweetDeck Apps Killed | 60 Minutes Hacked - Posted April 22, 2013
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The Coolest Use Of Vine To Date: An Evolving Music Video Called Vinetune - Posted April 11, 2013
If you're a musician on Twitter or just a fan of awesome things, you HAVE to see this. It's a music video that's continuously changing, pulling in specifically hashtagged Vines - and the result is pretty fantastic. Oh, and if you're a musician seeking publicity, they may highlight your... [AllTwitter]

Among Teens, Interest in Facebook Falling Significantly - Posted April 10, 2013
Over the past year, the share of teens who said Facebook is the most important social media site for them fell 10 percent, according to a study of teen consumer habits by the investment banking firm Piper Jaffray. Facebook remained the most popular social netw... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media Newsfeed: Google Play Update | GM Likes Facebook Again - Posted April 10, 2013
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7 Tips for Building a Better Hashtag Strategy - Posted April 9, 2013
Hashtags aren't just for tweeters anymore. Now that Vine and Facebook have announced "trending hashtag" features, every social media promo campaign must have a well-chosen hashtag, and yesterday an amusing story reminded us how important the strategy behind these tags can be. Basically, some wise guy tweeted #nowthatcherisdead to... [PRNewser]

Looks Like Vine Is Here to Stay - Posted April 9, 2013
Our readers may be forgiven for responding to Twitter's Vine app with a shrug and a "meh." When we first saw it, we were very skeptical of reports that it was the hot new thing among the kids who've apparently grown bored with Facebook and don't follow politics or tech news... [PRNewser]

Social Media Newsfeed: Michael Arrington Responds | Facebook Home Leak - Posted April 9, 2013
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Vine Hits Top Spot for Free Apps in App Store - Posted April 8, 2013
Vine, the video sharing startup acquired by Twitter and before its January launch, became the most downloaded free iOS app today, according to App Store list... [SocialTimes.com]

Vine Hits Top Spot for Free Apps in App Store - Posted April 8, 2013
Vine, the video sharing startup acquired by Twitter and before its January launch, became the most downloaded free iOS app today, according to App Store list... [AllFacebook]

5 Tips for Creating Great Multimedia Press Releases - Posted April 8, 2013
Today we bring you a guest post via Sheldon Levine. Levine is community manager for Marketwired/Sysomos... [PRNewser]

5 Tips for Creating Great Multimedia Press Releases - Posted April 8, 2013
Today we bring you a guest post via Sheldon Levine. Levine is community manager for Marketwired/Sysomos... [AgencySpy]

Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook Home Privacy | Fake Twitter Followers - Posted April 8, 2013
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Vine Announces Trending Hashtags, Further Antagonizing Haters - Posted April 5, 2013
There are those on Twitter who love to hate Vines. They have good reason, we guess. Vines are new and (sometimes) annoying - and everyone is talking about them like they're the best thing since . . . the last best thing everyone hated. But Vine is going ... [AllTwitter]

Are Hashtags Useful? - Posted April 5, 2013
Of all of the techniques, strategies, flotsam and jetsam to spawn from social media since its meteoric rise in the mid-2000's, there may be nothing as polarizing as the hashtag. Some users utilize hashtags any chance that they get, others see them as an aesthetic and textual nuisance. But the real question... [TVSpy]

Prince Is Not A Fan Of Vines; Sends Take Down Notice To Twitter - Posted April 3, 2013
The artist formerly (and now again) known as Prince is NOT a fan of Vines, it seems. In a move that screams "dramatic," the uniquely symboled one's company claims the six-second clips violate copyright. This IS important to note though, because it raises impor... [AllTwitter]

Prince Is Not A Fan Of Vines; Sends Take Down Notice To Twitter - Posted April 3, 2013
The artist formerly (and now again) known as Prince is NOT a fan of Vines, it seems. In a move that screams "dramatic," the uniquely symboled one's company claims the six-second clips violate copyright. This IS important to note though, because it raises impor... [10,000 Words]

Six-Second Video Vines Prove Perfect For Shorty Awards [VIDEOS] - Posted April 3, 2013
Over the past five years, the Shorty Awards (honoring the best in social media) have added new categories to their list, with the introduction of widely used social media platforms and tools. The newest categories for the fifth annual awards ceremony taking place on April ... [AllTwitter]

Please Don't Use Vine: It's Boring - Posted April 3, 2013
When Vine was launched in January, I immediately thought it could be a new tool for reporters and wrote about it here. I didn't have any particular good ideas, but was interested to see how peop... [TVSpy]

Please Don't Use Vine: It's Boring - Posted April 3, 2013
When Vine was launched in January, I immediately thought it could be a new tool for reporters and wrote about it here. I didn't have any particular good ideas, but was interested to see how peop... [10,000 Words]

Twitter Adds Ability To Embed Vines On Any Website - Posted March 29, 2013
Twitter just released a great new way to use Vines for your business - the ability to embed them on your website. And if you're wondering why you should bother, you obviously didn't catch our post on ... [AllTwitter]

Vine Update Will Deliver Videos Around the Web - Posted March 29, 2013
With an update today, Twitter's video-sharing app Vine began enabling users to embed their videos on websites in addition to sharing them on Twitter and Facebook. The update will allow the popular 6-second, looping videos to appear around the web. "When we launched Vine, we described posts as 'li... [SocialTimes.com]

Check Out The First 'Tweaser' Of The Upcoming Wolverine Movie - Posted March 26, 2013
New twords invade the Twitterverse all the time. Many are annoying, but some are pretty clever . . . like "tweaser." What's a Tweaser? A Twitter-teaser, of course. And we wonder i... [AllTwitter]

App.net Gets Its Own Video-Sharing App, Climber - Posted March 25, 2013
At the fight to be the dominant video-sharing app, Twitter weighed in heavy with Vine, but App.net signaled its intention to keep fighting today with the app Climber, designed for its subscription-based social network.... [SocialTimes.com]

#TheFollowing Sets A Social TV Standard With Giveaways And #ShockCam - Posted March 25, 2013
Want to know how to incorporate Twitter into your advertising? Take a look at the latest happenings in social TV and you're sure to be inspired. For example, the new TV show The Following is going all out with Twitter interaction, even incorporating Vine ... [AllTwitter]

Popular Developer David Weekly Joins Facebook, Along With Ohana Co-Founder Nathan Schmidt - Posted March 25, 2013
Facebook's latest acqu-hire is one that may prove popular with applicati... [AllFacebook]

Friday Morning Laughs - The Pill To Lower Your IQ Permanently - Posted March 22, 2013
Happy Friday, ladies and gents! As the workweek comes to a close, we've rounded up some of this week's funniest videos. This week's Friday Morning Laughs includes an infomercial for a new pill that will lower your IQ permanently, lemons, Carlsberg, Super Mario, a screaming flower girl and more.... [SocialTimes.com]

Meet the World's Greatest Vine User - Posted March 18, 2013
Last week we wrote a couple of posts about brands creating cool promotional campaigns with Twitter's Vine app. Yet, when we wrote about the (excellent) clips from brands like GE or Clorox GreenWorks,... [PRNewser]

Free Messaging App MessageMe Latest To Lose Access To Facebook Find Friends Functionality - Posted March 18, 2013
Facebook once again demonstrated that it does not believe imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, blocking access to its ... [AllFacebook]

Green Works Urges Fans to Play St. Patrick's Day Charades on Vine - Posted March 15, 2013
On Monday we gave you a list of brands doing cool things on Vine, Twitter's six-second looping video app. Today we have to add Clorox's Green Works to that list for their St. Patty's day-themed campaign urging fans to "go green" by playing charades. Tweeters who guess each charade correctly will... [PRNewser]

The Vatican Uses Emoticons, Too - Posted March 13, 2013
As of this moment, The Vatican hasn't announced exactly who the new Pope is, but we thought we'd take the time to share this tweet and to apologize for our failure to create the world's next Vine sensation, "6 seconds of white smoke": HABEMUS PAPAM \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ -- VaticanCommunication... [PRNewser]

Social Media Newsfeed: LinkedIn SlideShare Ads | Social Ad Disclosures - Posted March 13, 2013
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10 of the Best Brands on Vine - Posted March 11, 2013
Twitter's Vine short video sharing service is the new thing. You've probably heard of it--you may have even seen what was supposed to be the world's first Vine press release. And you're going to keep hearing about it, because six-second video loops are quick, impressionistic and perfect for our social medi... [PRNewser]

SXSW: Animated GIF-making allows party-goers to experience A&E's Bates Motel - Posted March 9, 2013
One of the best uses of social TV is the art of animated GIF-making. The fun meme-able moveable image has allowed TV to get viewers excited about a show during big tentpoles, at events and more. With SXSW in... [Lost Remote]

Twitter Casts Video Services Out Into The Cold, Dark Web - Posted March 6, 2013
Twitter announced some updates to its app on its blog today. The updated features make using Twitter faster and easier - with nifty little bits of awesomeness to boot (read ... [10,000 Words]

Twitter Casts Video Services Out Into The Cold, Dark Web - Posted March 6, 2013
Twitter announced some updates to its app on its blog today. The updated features make using Twitter faster and easier - with nifty little bits of awesomeness to boot (read ... [AllTwitter]

How To Create The Perfect Vine - Posted March 5, 2013
Have you tested your video production skills yet using Twitter's Vine? With Vine jus... [AllTwitter]

Viddy Delivers Major Update in Bid to Compete With Vine - Posted February 28, 2013
After laying off a third of its Los Angeles-based work force last week, Viddy launched a ma... [AllFacebook]

Is This The World's First Vine Press Release? - Posted February 28, 2013
Today we may have witnessed a first: a press release delivered via 6-second Vine mini-video. The makers of Sonar, a "social discovery app" that allows users to find others by geographical proximity (which Mediabistro profiled in this Elevator Pitch video), just received a big investment from Mic... [PRNewser]

Facebook Blocks Instagram-Like App Vintage Camera - Posted February 27, 2013
Facebook has not been hesitant to cut off data to applications that don't share back, as Vine and Yandex discovered recently. Now it has blocked a photo app -- ... [AllFacebook]

Viddy Lays Off a Third of Its Staff - Posted February 25, 2013
Viddy, a video-sharing service that early handicappers had leading Vine, has eliminated 12 positions, or one third of its Los Angeles-based staff. The layoffs just one month after Twitter ... [SocialTimes.com]

CodeComputerLove Uses Vine to Reinvent Traditional Comics - Posted February 25, 2013
Creative digital agency Code ComputerLove demonstrates the best thing about new media: its ability to reinvent traditional forms of storytelling. The group has remastered the art of comics into a series Vine digital shorts reminiscent of ... [AppNewser]

David Cross's Latest Feature Film Debuts in its Entirety on Vine - Posted February 20, 2013
Independent film company Oscillope Labs is debuting its feature film, It's a Disaster, in its entirety on Vine - six seconds at a time. Since the video looping app only allows users to create videos using a mobile iOS device, the video clips are recordings of the film shown on a... [AppNewser]

Is Mobile Video The Next Big Thing In Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC] - Posted February 19, 2013
If 2012 was the year of social mobile, is 2013 the year of social mobile video? Perhaps. Certainly, Twitter's entrance into this space with Vine was h... [AllTwitter]

How One Company Used #ValenVines To Win Twitter Today - Posted February 14, 2013
Did you create a ValenVine for your Valentine today? If not, you missed out. But no worries - there's always next year. Or HallowVine. (You get the idea. And yes, I know that doesn't work nearly as well.) Some people were ALL over it though - and one comp... [10,000 Words]

Vine: What A Six-Second Video Can Do For Business - Posted February 14, 2013
Most of us are already aware of the new six-second video app, Vine, but not much has been said on how business... [AllTwitter]

Vimeo Takes on Twitter with GIF-like Video Maker, Echograph - Posted February 14, 2013
Vimeo will have a new app for making videos that look like animated GIFs. The company today announced the acquisition of Echograph from Clear-Media for an undisclosed sum. Much like Twitter's Vine, Echograph plays short video clips on a loop. "We chose Echograph because it helps peop... [SocialTimes.com]

Simply Measured Swings In With a Vine Analytics Tool - Posted February 13, 2013
That was fast. Less than a month after Twitter's debut of Vine, data company Simply Measured has come out with a Vine Analyt... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media Newsfeed: Grammys Go Social | Apple Wristwatch? - Posted February 11, 2013
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Telly (Formerly Twitvid) Is Hoping To Give Vine A Run For Its Money - Posted February 8, 2013
Back in December 2011, video sharing service Twitvid underwent a major refresh in hopes of carving out a space for itself as a social video network. Then, 7 months ago, Twitvid c... [AllTwitter]

Use VineGifR to Turn Your Vines Into Animated GIFs - Posted February 4, 2013
Twitter's controversial video looper, Vine, has a new friend, VineGifR. The simple mac app turns Vine's mp4 files into silent animated Gifs. The app is still being developed and refined, but it is extremely simple to use - just open the VineGifR window, paste ... [AppNewser]

Social Media Newsfeed: Social Super Bowl | Twitter Outage - Posted February 1, 2013
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7 creative examples of how TV brands are using Vine - Posted January 31, 2013
Twitter debuted its Vine video app a week ago, and we're starting to see some creative experiments by TV brands, both local and national. As we noted in ... [Lost Remote]

'Bang With Friends' App Makers Not Doing Themselves Any Favors - Posted January 31, 2013
One of this week's creepiest stories concerns the new Facebook app Bang With Friends. In case you haven't heard, the app promises to help users find Facebook connections who are u... [PRNewser]

How Can Journalists Use Vine? - Posted January 30, 2013
What can you get in six seconds or less? A whole lot, apparently. It's been a week since Vine, Twitter's new app for creating, curating, and sharing s... [TVSpy]

Twitter Enhances Viewing Options For Photos, Videos and Related Tweets - Posted January 30, 2013
Twitter is kicking that photo/video train into high gear, with its announcement of new photo and video features that are rolling out, starting today. Steamrolling out, rather. And not only that, they're making it easier to view related tweets, making T... [AllTwitter]

Twitter Rolls Out Lightbox Photo Display, More Videos - Posted January 30, 2013
Twitter will allow users to expand photos, watch videos and read conversations from within the main Twitter feed. Users can now expand photos an... [SocialTimes.com]

Russia's Yandex Puts Wonder App On Hold After Unsuccessful Talks With Facebook - Posted January 30, 2013
After Facebook revoked access to its data from Russi... [AllFacebook]

Haven't Tried Vine, But Want To Take A Peek? Check Out VinePeek - Posted January 29, 2013
If you've yet to succumb to the six-second video time-suck phenomenon that is Vine, but you're wondering what all the hubub is about, we have a great site for you to check out. It streams new Vines as they're posted, s... [AllTwitter]

Vine Launch Shows Off Twitter's Muscle as PR Machine - Posted January 28, 2013
Twitter's video-sharing app Vine launched on Thursday, and immediately ran into technical problems. But the tech world continues to buzz about the new app in what industry watchers see as a testament to Twitter's muscle as a PR vehicle. Vine is not the first video-sha... [SocialTimes.com]

Twitter's Vine Video App: Great for Marketers and Porn Promoters - Posted January 28, 2013
Never underestimate the porn industry's uncanny ability to worm its way into every single thing ever. Twitter made media headlines at the end of last week with the debut of its new Vine video-sharing application, a feature that threaten... [PRNewser]

Social Media Newsfeed: Twitter Valuation | Square Resignation - Posted January 28, 2013
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Twitter Lets You Share Vines To Facebook Despite Friend Finder Snub - Or Does It? - Posted January 25, 2013
Remember when Twitter decided to no longer allow Instagrammers to find Tweople and cut off access to its API? And now... [AllTwitter]

Facebook Responds To Platform Controversy Around Apps Voxer, Wonder, Vine - Posted January 25, 2013
In recent days, Facebook has been cutting off data access to applications that have been using it in ways that either compete with or replicate what the social network does -- first with ... [AllFacebook]

Twitter Video-Sharing App Vine Hung Out To Dry By Facebook - Posted January 25, 2013
Add one more application to the list of those being blocked by Facebook: Vine, a new video-sharing app from Twitter, joined Russian search engine Yandex's ... [AllFacebook]

Social Media Newsfeed: Vine Launch | Zuck Hosting Christie Fundraiser - Posted January 25, 2013
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Facebook Lops Twitter's Vine From API Use - Posted January 24, 2013
Facebook has evidently cut Vine off its API less than 24 hours after the Twitter product launched. Twitter launched the video-sharing service earlier today, after acquiring the company in October. Users are prompted to find their Facebook friends -- but a Facebook error reveal... [SocialTimes.com]

Vine Turns Twitter Into Tumblr On Speed (Watch Out, Tumblr) - Posted January 24, 2013
So it looks like yesterday's video post by Twitter's CEO was no mistake. They sure know how to get the Internets buzzing at Twitter, hmm? And today we have a snazzy new feature to play with, six-second videos. ... [AllTwitter]

Twitter Unveils Video-Sharing Service, Vine - Posted January 24, 2013
As expected, Twitter launched its recently acquired video-tweeting service Vine this morning. The mobile app allows users to share 6-... [SocialTimes.com]

Should TV take notice of Twitter's new video sharing app Vine? - Posted January 24, 2013
Last fall Twitter acquired a mobile company called Vine, and today they rolled out what Vine has been building: a mobile app that enables users to take six-second videos with their phones and share and embed them. In many ways, it's Twitter's version ... [Lost Remote]

Social Media Newsfeed: Quora Blogs | Google Image Search - Posted January 24, 2013
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Twitter: The Land Of 140 Character Tweets . . . And Six-Second Videos? - Posted January 23, 2013
Did you catch the quick video Twitter's CEO shared on Twitter? It's a clip of someone making steak tartare in six seconds - using Vine (the video service Twitter acqu... [AllTwitter]

Video-Sharing Startup Vine Acquired By Twitter - Posted October 9, 2012
Twitter appears to be gearing up for its video-hosting service with the acquisition of a New York-based video-sharing site called ... [SocialTimes.com]