Vine, Twitter's popular short-video sharing service, has officially beat its competitor Instagram to tablet devices with Monday's announcement the application is now available on Amazon's Kindle Fire HD.
Vine, originally introduced for Apple's iOS in January and ported to Google's Android in early June, allows its users to take and share videos that are up to 6 seconds long. People can either make one long take or cut the video together to share montages or create stop motion videos. FierceMobileContent reports Vine's 13 million users are now sharing more than one million videos every day.
With Vine now branching out into the tablet market, it gives the service a slight leg up over its competitor. Recently, Facebook announced Instagram Video for it's popular iPhone photo sharing application. Since that time, Marketing Land reports usage for Vine dropped significantly, as much as 40 percent. However, according to VentureBeat, the drop off could be temporary as many people may have simply been diverting from Vine in order to check out what Instagram has to offer.
Instagram Video uploads reached five million within the first 24 hours of its debut. allows users to record 15 seconds of video rather than Vine's six seconds. In addition, Instagram offers users the same variety of filters for its videos as it does with its picture sharing service, a feature that Vine does not have.
Before Facebook purchased Instagram it was perfectly tailored to Twitter users. However, since that time, Instagram photos or videos don't have direct integration with Twitter. While there is a post to Twitter option for all photos and videos, they don't appear embedded in people's tweets. Instead, all that can be seen is a link to Instagram's website. Vine, on the other hand, does embed directly into tweets giving it an advantage over Instagram Video.
Although the Kindle Fire only has a front-facing camera, Vine looks to give it a workout. It's not illogical to speculate that Vine is looking to branch out into more tablet devices as well as Windows phones and Blackberry devices as it has already set the bar for being the first popular video sharing service for a tablet device.
