Instagram’s chief executive, Kevin Systrom, called the new feature “fast, simple and beautiful.”
MENLO PARK, Calif. If “60 Minutes” were being dreamed up today, its producers might very well have ditched the idea and gone with “6 Seconds” instead.
That’s the maximum length of the videos on Vine, a mobile application owned by Twitter that has grown like one of those creeping plants, to close to 20 million users since it sprouted five months ago.
On Thursday, Facebook introduced its own short-video service, built into Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app that Facebook bought last year. The new feature allows users to record as much as 15 seconds of video, enhance it with image filters and post it immediately.
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