Dive summary:
- Twitter is bringing Vine, a six-second video sharing service, to Android for the first time; for the past five months the video service was only available on the iPhone.
- In those short five months, Vine has grown to over 13 million users.
- The Android version is bare bones, but will be updating steadily over the next few months with features like front facing camera use, push notifications, hashtag functionality and search capabilities.
From the article:
"The tech world will be watching the next few weeks closely to see what effect Vine’s arrival on Android has on its user base, and there’s a pretty obvious opportunity for comparison ready at hand: Instagram. Instagram launched on Android back in April of 2012, after managing to build a user base 30 million strong on iOS. The photo-sharing app then added a million new users in just 12 hours thanks to Android users flooding the service."