Lesson 1. What Is Vine—and What Can You Do With It?

In this lesson, you learn all about Vine—the company, the app, and the social network.

Introducing Vine

If you haven’t yet heard about Vine, chances are, you will. Vine is a new mobile app and video-sharing service that lets you record short (six-second maximum) looping videos on your mobile home, and then share those videos with online friends.

Vine lets you easily share your videos with friends—or, as the company likes to say, “share life in motion.” In a way, Vine is like a video version of Instagram, only instead of sharing still photos, you share Vine’s short looping videos. Vine videos (called vines) can be viewed from the Vine mobile app, linked to from a person’s Twitter feed, shared ...

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