Social network Twitter has launched a video service called Vine which is a free app for iOS devices that allows users to shoot and post short videos on their feed.
The official Vine blog has further explanation of this concept: "Like Tweets, the brevity of videos on Vine (6 seconds or less) inspires creativity.Now that you can easily capture motion and sound, we look forward to seeing what you create." the company said in their post."We’re working now to bring it to other platforms, so stay tuned for that," the company added.
The network has supported embedded YouTube videos since 2009, but for the first time, Twitter itself will host video content with Vine.
Click this link to check out Vine in action.
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Facebook has blocked Twitter’s new Vine app from being able to find your Facebook friends on the service.
Click this link to download Vine for free from the App Store.
Here is an user-friendly Twitter client that lets you track your tweets simply and securely – Twee.li It is a freeware tool based Adobe AIR that allows you to chat with your Twitter friends. With this tool, you can talk to who you read, see their latest tweets and DMs.
You can view your online friends and also you can search contacts. Online friends are shown only if your friends are also using Twee.li
Visit:http://www.twee.li/
It may be difficult for you to search the hundreds of links people you follow on Twitter are sharing every day. Here is Paper.li which can help you .This application can make any Twitter feed look like an online newspaper website, complete with headlines, photos, articles, and a newspaper-style layout.It automatically organizes the content into topics , extracts summaries , multimedia and context.You can also create a Paper.li newspaper of your own, just sign in with your Twitter account.It examines links that you share on Twitter, and links shared by people you follow, to produce what it calls a “daily newspaper.”.You can go ahead and create your own customized version of newspaper with just the news that interests you. There are a vast range of subjects, topics and articles covered in each edition.
Paper.li is free, you can log in either with Twitter or Facebook and create your own page in addition to continuously updated for 5 -Newspaper on Twitter hashtags(#) or users.It is a cool service for anyone who wishes to exercise Twitter times from a different angle .
Visit : http://paper.li/
some tools that can help you manage your followers and publicize their work at Twitter! Some of these serve up for your safety on Twitter! You can find out if there is any following inactive or perhaps a false follower, with the sole purpose of sending spam! Do not miss!
One of the simplest ways to use Twitter is to conduct instant polls among your followers.You can also embed the poll in your website, send it to Facebook, email it, etc. All you have to do is enter a question into the provided box, and then set down a series of possible answers for your recipients to choose from.
Here you have a tool “Whoshouldifollow” that was specially created to meet other people who have interests in common. You will have the chance to support people who are similar in many respects with the followers you have. Cultivating a community with common interests is extremely important, it will keep his followers increasingly interested in their affairs. No registration or sign up is required—you just need a Twitter account.
Those of you who use Twitter know how quickly one can accumulate unknown "followers".Unfortunately, many of us not know those unknown followers aren't really people at all, but fake profiles designed to draw visitors away from your profile to adult Web sites and other dicey online destinations .TwitBlock is a web application which looks at its base of followers and provide 'ratings spam' for each follower and classifies them according to the accounts that are most likely spam. Then, you can block them immediately. As a result, this new tool makes for freeing Twitter from the clutter we all associate with spammers and phishing gangs
Do you like to change the Twitter background or profile icon automatically?Here is a free utility called TwiBack, with which you can automatically change the Twitter background and profile image at predefined time set by you.You can upload your photos, icons, avatars, patterns, designs, background wallpapers, even advertisements and they will change automatically on Twitter´s background.
Features
- You can set the Twitter background or icon for your birthday date
- Upload your photos to Twiback and they will load automatically!You don’t need to waste time on it anymore.
- You can set the Twitter background for season wise — it’ll appear when the next season starts. Automatically.
- You can use your Twitter background space for advertisements!
- If you have a company Upload and promote your products on the background.
You can set the time zone and then choose whether your background should change daily/ weekly/ monthly and finally select the time. You have to save the settings, select the wallpapers and profile images accordingly.
Nowadays everyone has all kinds of content that they post to the web.You have probably spend a lot of time online and push a lot of data into Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites. Would you be upset if your favorite site shut down? What if your favorite site stayed up, but you lost your account? Are the notes, pictures, and links important to you? How long did it take to build the connection/friends/followers you have? Do you want to re-do all of that work?What if someone hacks into your Gmail and cleans off everything?
So the data you create is important and it should be backed up.It will save you lots of time in the event of a data loss. Think , if all this data you have scattered across the web can backed up in a single place, do you feel it is easy to manage and more convenient?
Backupify is an online service that allows you to backup all your cloud applications.So if your computer crashes or your hard drive dies, you won’t lose all of the messages from your Gmail account or all of the photos you saved to Flickr.
Here are the services that Backupify can currently back up
- Gmail
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Flickr
- Photobucket
- Google Docs
- Zoho
- Basecamp
- Wordpress
- Blogger
- Hotmail
- Delicious
- FriendFeed
The company is also working to add Youtube, Xmarks, RssFeed, and Tumblr in the future.
The offer will be open until January 31, 2010.If you sign up during this time period, you get unlimited storage, for free. You get an account that is not a free trial, not free for a limited time, free forever.Privacy may be of a concern for certain persons but their privacy policy taken care of that.
Also Read :Automate Your Online Backup With CrashPlan
The add-on lets users comment on the website and also allows users to search and 
Features
- View tweets about any webpage
- Join the discussion, reply, retweet
- View the popular pages on a website
- Doubles up as a full blown twitter client allowing you to update, view @mentions and DM as well as new followers and unfollowers
- Supports Firefox, Internet Explorer
