Twitter ups video limit to 140 seconds (CNET Update)
Twitter ups video limit to 140 seconds (CNET Update)
2016-06-21
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
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