Gadgetory

as a social network that likes to keep things short and sweet it's not surprising that Twitter released a new app that lets you upload six-second videos Valve's called vine it's available for iOS devices and is already being called the Instagram for video let's take a look so when you launch the app for the first time you'll be asked to login by connecting with Twitter or by using your email address once you're all set up you'll see a feed of videos uploaded by people you follow we'll get to that in a minute and some editors picks right now it's a lot of babies dogs food and stop-motion video the interface is pretty cool actually as you scroll through videos and the feed they'll autoplay with sound and if you want to you can tap on a video at any point deposit some of these videos do move really fast so you'll want to get comfortable with that feature now below each video you'll see people who liked it and comments and buttons for liking and commenting on the video yourself ok let's check out the other tabs tap on the icon in this corner and you can navigate to Explorer which lets you browse by topic like how to nature or food you can enter a tag or user name in the search field up here or you can dig around these curated collections like editors picks or popular now there's also an activity menu where you'll see news about who's following you and who's liking or commenting on your videos ok and last of all is the profile tab here you'll see all of your vine videos your likes and if you tap this icon in the corner you can add people by searching for them in your address book Twitter Facebook or by name also back in the profile tab is your settings here take a moment to fill in things like your bio location and link vine to your social networks down here so that you can share your videos see mostly now that I have all of that filled out I think it's time to upload my very first vine so I have this lunch salad that I need to assemble and I'm thinking that it might make for a good vine video all right check out my components and I'll need a plate let me show you how to record a vine from the home menu I'll select the video icon here in the corner and the camera will launch okay shooting video with vine is a little different from what you're used to to record hold down and to pause let go you can keep doing this as many times as you want until you hit 6 seconds so since I can't make the salad and shoot the video at the same time Chris is going to help me shoot the video while I assemble the salad alright so first to go down is our letters and he'll do a couple seconds of this next we'll do a little avocado some cubed oranges sprinkle some nuts and finally I'll hit it with a little dressing alright so now that we're done shooting it I can preview the video and in the next window I can add a caption if you want to do include some hashtags I'll add some here so hopefully anyone searching for food or lunch will come across my vine video finally I'll choose my sharing settings tap Done and my video will be posted and there it is right at the top of my stream alright now it's your turn if you're just uploading your first vine tweet it to me and Android users just sit tight Twitter does say its apps should be coming to you very soon for cnet.com I'm Sharon Vaknin it's time to eat those salad you