Some students embrace Instagram video, but still need Vine
By Josh Edelson, AFP
Some things just need longer than six seconds.
No longer will users see only filtered photos of sunsets, animals and flowers. Company co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom announced Thursday that a video feature has been added to the photo-sharing app.
"It's everything we know and love about Instagram, but it moves," Systrom said in the announcement
The Facebook-owned company is in direct competition with the Twitter-owned Vine, which allows its 13 million users to share six-second video clips.
Both functions allow the user to press and hold a button to film; however, video on Instagram comes with many features Vine doesn't have.
On Instagram, clips can be focused, edited and deleted, and a cover frame can be selected. A feature Instagram calls Cinema, a stabilization technology, will enhance the video and make sure it is not shaky.
Meryl Gottlieb is a Summer 2013 Paste BN Collegiate Correspondent. Learn more about her here.
This story originally appeared on the Paste BN College blog, a news source produced for college students by student journalists. The blog closed in September of 2017.