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hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com joined by senior writer Daniel tournament today we're talking all about vine and Twitter tell us a little bit about this new video embedded service so this is a iphone and ipod touch up right now it's a standalone service Twitter bought the company in October and they just launched it today okay what does it do it does six-second video loops so you can shoot a video of kind of anything you want it's the examples of the showa are like kids in the park or like a runway show or maybe you know making making a recipe or something and you just shoot it you seen using your smartphone iphone in this case and you can then embed it in a tweed put it on Facebook run it just in the vine app and it just runs in a loop and it just it's kind of like a long gif yeah Jeff I guess what's the point of that since it is only six seconds well they say it's about brevity that you can create you can express yourself creatively in six seconds and so that's the that's the time frame they chose they said that they experimented with anything from like four seconds to 10 seconds and they'd settled on six there's another service that I've written about called tout which is a which is also you know a phone-based video app that they chose 15 seconds and you know frankly based on on that you know like you can you the difference between six seconds and 15 seconds doesn't sound like a lot but it really is it you can cover a lot of ground on that much time sure it is interesting how Twitter sort of determines the length of things 140 characters for example or six seconds you know they really are focused on brevity and people seem to respond and obviously use it they do and it's interesting you know talked about the hundred forty characters I mean when when Twitter first launched and it was just a hundred and forty characters because that's what the limits were based on text messages which is what you know why they chose that length now there's so much stuff that you can put in a tweet that the whole idea of like 140 characters just kind of like you know it's an afterthought you videos photos articles summaries there's a chart out there that lists all the different metadata that you can that it's included in a single tweet and it's an unbelievable amount of information well I guess that just goes to show that we'll see what people can do a six second but will probably be more than we initially think right now imagine so yes great so the service is called vine it's available today and it's free it's free it's only for iphone and ipod touch they said that they'll you know probably put it out for quote other platforms later on but right now it's it's just for iphone and ipod touch and it is a standalone service even though twitter owns it they've launched it as its own thing and you don't need a twitter account to use it great thank you so much staff writer senior writer daniel tournament I'm Kara Tsuboi thanks for watching the inside scoop on cnet com