Vine starts taking note of loop counts, revamps Home and Activity feeds

Prolific and good Vine users might get more traffic with the new feature introduced. Vine is now tracking the loop count of a video across its platforms (mobile and Web). Some videos might have the “+” attached to its loop counts because that means the videos had been looped before April 3 (when they started tracking Vine loops).

Vine has also redesigned the Home Feed for Android and iOS to make it easier to like and comment as well as see videos from edge-to-edge. They have also retouched the Activity feed so you can see the separation between New and Older Activity. It also lets you know if your Vines surpass certain milestones like 25 or 100 likes.

First Vine from outer space shows the Earth’s orbit

While Astronaut Mike Massinimo was the first person to tweet from space in 2009, there is a new social media first coming all the way from outer space. Astronaut Reid Wiseman has sent the first Vine video from space showing the Earth’s orbit in six seconds. Wiseman explained in the caption that the sun does not set on this 90-minute orbit because the International Space Station travels along the terminator line, which is the border between darkness and light on the face of the earth. It is still quite a sight though.

Source: Gizmodo

Vine revamps website to attract more users

Vine is making it easier for the World Wide Web to view your clips with the redesign of its site. Previously, the site only lets users visit their home feeds or view another user’s profile and clips. Now, you don’t have to be a registered user to watch clips. The site has sections like trending tags, channels, playlists, featured videos, and popular now clips.

Source: The Verge

Vine introduces focus and exposure locking to iOS

Vine wants to help you produce better looking six-second clips on iOS with its new update. The Twitter company introduced exposure and focus locking, which helps prevent any unexpected changes in terms of sharpness and brightness will you record. You just need to tap and hold on a subject to activate the feature. There is no word yet when the company plans to bring this to the Android and Windows Phone platform.

Source: Engadget