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Twitter buys Vine

21 points by PaulMcCartney 14y ago

brackin 14y ago
Interesting, it definitely makes sense. I've not used the product but I've seen the exported video, Vine has done a good job of removing some of the stigma associated with other services like Twitvid and SocialCam. There's no flash on the viewing page and it feels like a different format to a standard video, like you'd use it to share a moment over a single clip. An example of a post from Kevin Rose: http://vine.co/v/u7a http://vine.co/v/u7a The service seemed to be used by much of the Silicon Valley elite (SV Angel Partners, Kevin Rose, MG Siegler) so one could presume many of these people or their firms were investors. It's a shame to see a company 'acquired' so early on as I like to believe most founders are in it for the long haul but I think this could be similar to when Facebook bought Karma (Gifting) or when Twitter bought Summify (Email newsletters), they aren't only buying them for the talent but to use their technology within their product.
- natrius 14y ago
  Thanks for sharing an example. It's such a simple idea, yet so much better than all the other attempts at the "Instagram for video" concept.
- joelrunyon 14y ago
  Speaking of Twitter acquihire technology, does anyone know whatever happened to do BackType? They had really great twitter search technology and I was hoping it would be integrated into twitter when they were acquired a while back, but judging from Twitter's search results, it looks like it hasn't.
  - omakase 14y ago
    Our product was ported and re-skinned inside Twitter's analytics offerings. On the technology side a lot of our core tech is being used across different teams here. Storm is being used to help power applications for analytics, revenue, content discovery, anti-spam, search and more. Also we're currently hiring engineers to work specifically on that technology so feel free to reach out to any of us from the BackType crew to get involved.
tomrod 14y ago
Interesting! I wonder if twitter looks to capture some of YouTube's fame via default uploads. iPhone/twitter integration is pretty solid in iOS6--makes me think this could be a play against YT.
protomyth 14y ago
previous submissions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633185 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633185 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4635252 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4635252 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4636158 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4636158 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633185 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633185 is the submission for the story that this submissions cites as its source

21 points by PaulMcCartney 14y ago

Interesting, it definitely makes sense. I've not used the product but I've seen the exported video, Vine has done a good job of removing some of the stigma associated with other services like Twitvid and SocialCam. There's no flash on the viewing page and it feels like a different format to a standard video, like you'd use it to share a moment over a single clip. An example of a post from Kevin Rose: http://vine.co/v/u7a http://vine.co/v/u7a The service seemed to be used by much of the Silicon Valley elite (SV Angel Partners, Kevin Rose, MG Siegler) so one could presume many of these people or their firms were investors. It's a shame to see a company 'acquired' so early on as I like to believe most founders are in it for the long haul but I think this could be similar to when Facebook bought Karma (Gifting) or when Twitter bought Summify (Email newsletters), they aren't only buying them for the talent but to use their technology within their product.

natrius 14y ago
Thanks for sharing an example. It's such a simple idea, yet so much better than all the other attempts at the "Instagram for video" concept.
joelrunyon 14y ago
Speaking of Twitter acquihire technology, does anyone know whatever happened to do BackType? They had really great twitter search technology and I was hoping it would be integrated into twitter when they were acquired a while back, but judging from Twitter's search results, it looks like it hasn't.
- omakase 14y ago
  Our product was ported and re-skinned inside Twitter's analytics offerings. On the technology side a lot of our core tech is being used across different teams here. Storm is being used to help power applications for analytics, revenue, content discovery, anti-spam, search and more. Also we're currently hiring engineers to work specifically on that technology so feel free to reach out to any of us from the BackType crew to get involved.

tomrod 14y ago

Interesting! I wonder if twitter looks to capture some of YouTube's fame via default uploads. iPhone/twitter integration is pretty solid in iOS6--makes me think this could be a play against YT.

protomyth 14y ago

previous submissions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633185 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633185 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4635252 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4635252 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4636158 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4636158 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633185 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633185 is the submission for the story that this submissions cites as its source