Twitter has on his website that users of its upcoming video service videos with a maximum length of 10 minutes are allowed to upload. Furthermore, there are the release no editing tools and advertising opportunities available.
A user of the social-networking site discovered that Twitter and his website for the previously announced video service already has put online. The faq on the video site gives insight into a lot of details, such as that there is no limit for the file size, but that uploaded videos are not longer than 10 minutes. Videos in the different container formats mkv and mov are supported with encoding in h264 and audio in aac format. Or later, more formats will be added is still unclear.
It is probably possible to add creatives to videos. Now, it is only possible for companies and content contributors who are on Twitter are registered in the Amplify program, but the faq suggests that ads eventually also be available for other users. Furthermore, the social-networking site insight into the kijkstatistieken. Tools to make videos to fit are missing in the release but may be added later.
The ability itself is available on video.twitter.com, but is not yet usable: Twitter reports that the tool is only available to users who have their account is verified. Furthermore, no information is given about when the video for the rest of the users is available. That the website and its faq already online suggests that the upload of videos is available quickly.
Twitter had in november already know that it is a platform wanted to provide for the sharing of videos, making it so wants to compete with YouTube. The social networking site bought earlier Vine, a service to short films of up to six seconds.
