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140 second videos come to Twitter and vine Twitter announced it will allow users to tweet videos up to a hundred and forty seconds long if you're wondering why a hundred and forty seconds of all the times 140 is also the character limit on written tweets the old video limit was 30 seconds twitter also says certain publishers will continue to be able to post videos up to 10 minutes long these longer videos can be uploaded using twitter com or Twitter's iOS and Android apps updated Mac and Windows apps are coming soon twitter also introduced a new video viewing mode for its apps clicking through to a video will bring up a full screen interface that plays your video along with related video clips below since Twitter wants video to be a huge success it's also changing how vine works vine videos feature a six second limit certain users will be able to include videos up to a hundred and forty seconds long with their six-second vine twitter calls to short vines trailers for the longer videos vine users can use Twitter's amplify program to run pre-roll ads this is the first time vine will share revenue with its users all this video news goes hand in hand with Twitter's recent purchase of magic pony magic pony is a company that specializes in machine learning it will allow Twitter to understand images in video that should help spur to recognize what you're watching and to suggest proper related video content and with that I maya's act on you can keep up with the hottest tech news at cnet com / update