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12seconds Launches 12cast, An iPhone 3GS App To Post Video To Twitter

Published on August 3, 2009 in mobile, social media, technology and video. View Comments

12seconds has launched a new iPhone 3GS app called 12cast. To use the app, you just log in with your Twitter account details, record a video by tilting the phone sideways, or you can add a video from your iPhone library. The video with title can then be posted to 12seconds and Twitter. Like 12seconds.tv itself, it’s pretty simple.

12cast
The 12cast app comes hot on the heels of the Twitvid iPhone 3GS app I wrote about a few days ago. Both are easy to use, but as well as leveraging the existing Twitter community like Twitvid, 12seconds has built up its own community over the past year.
I was an alpha user of 12seconds when they first started and I’m continuing to use it fairly regularly. I’ve found it’s particularly good for sending quick, fun on-the-go videos from a mobile phone, which can also be sent via email.
The 12cast app is a welcome addition to the existing 12seconds iPhone app, which allowed the creation and posting of 12 second slideshows comprised of three iPhone images and twelve seconds of audio. This was never ideal, but an okay workaround in the absence of (non-jailbroken) iPhone video.
Here’s Sol Lipman from 12seconds with a quick demo of how the 12casst app works:

Twitvid Launches iPhone 3GS App To Catch The Mobile Video Wave

Published on July 14, 2009 in Twitter, social media, technology and video. View Comments
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No doubt Twitvid is hoping to catch the wave of Twitter users buying the new video enabled iPhone 3GS, as well as other video enabled mobile phones. Twitvid has just launched an easy to use iPhone application in which you can record a video and upload it to the site, or upload a previously recorded video. Alternatively, you can email a video to the site using a unique email address the site assigns to your profile.


Stephen Fry on Twitvid

The Twitvid web interface allows you to upload a video file from your computer or capture a video via webcam. As far as recording and uploading a video goes, it seems like all bases are covered. Twitvid also has a substantial 1GB or 20min video upload limit. Given that it’s a service for sharing videos on twitter, I assume most people will keep their videos pretty short and small in file size, but I could be wrong there.

It’s very easy to get going on Twitvid. You don’t even have to go through a sign up process, you just sign in using your usual Twitter username and password. In addition to Twitter, there are settings to cross-post your videos to Facebook, MySpace and YouTube if desired.

Many of the social features we’ve become accustomed to seeing are there. Once you’ve posted a video, people are able to make comments which, just like Twitpic, are posted on twitter with a link to your video. There are also a ‘Re-tweet’, ‘Like’ and ‘Follow’ buttons and an embeddable Meebo chatroom to “Chat about this TwitVid”. When you visit the video maker’s profile you can also view “Buzz” (tweets) related to all their TwitVids.

In terms of attempting to get a lot of users to use the service in a short time, it’s a smart move to leverage a large (and getting larger every month), existing community rather than building one from scratch. It remains to be seen how many people will use Twitvid and, perhaps more importantly, continue to use it once the initial novelty has worn off. If it catches on like Twitpic has, it should do well. According to compete.com, Twitpic now has over 4 million unique visitors a month.

twitpicGraph of Twitpic unique visitors: under 1 mill, Dec 2008 to 4 270 400, June 2009