Dive summary:
- Twitter officially launches video sharing app, Vine, and is quickly met with a bug that signs in users under other users accounts.
- New users are temporarily able to see the phone number and email information of another user. To stop posting on wrong accounts, Vine had to shut down Facebook and Twitter sharing temporarily until the bug was fixed.
- Besides the intitial hiccup, Vine still seems a promising app for Twitter to break into lucrative video market.
From the article:
"The bug spoiled what otherwise would have been a promising new rollout for Twitter. Vine, which Twitter acquired for an undisclosed sum last fall, gives the company the opportunity to dip a toe in one area of the Internet where it has so far failed to gain a footing: video. According to ComScore, which monitors online video traffic, 86 percent of the Web audience in the United States viewed online video last October, the last month for which data is available. Of the more than 37 billion online videos they viewed, the majority — 13 billion — were on Google’s YouTube video sharing service."
