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Happy First Vine Birthday

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On Friday the Twitter mobile service Vine that lets you capture and share short looping videos celebrated one year of online presence.

It started as a service to make it easier to share short looping videos with a phone and just four months after its release it became the fastest growing app worldwide.

Compared to Instagram which has 150 million users the mobile app has a much smaller user base. In August 2013, the team proudly announced on Twitter that in just eight months the app has reached 40 million users.

To celebrate its first birthday, the team is collecting and showing off viral videos made by users on its site. It is also asking users to join the celebration and share their favorite videos and has created a special hashtag #VineBirthday. 

To get a taste of the viral videos here are some examples. You can join the celebration, see the viral videos of the past one year and share your favorite videos on the Vine site.

 

Source: Vine blog, Picture: Vine

 

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Twitter confidentially files with SEC for planned IPO

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It was expected and after months of rumours Twitter has finally submitted papers to SEC for planned IPO. It has done this confidentially submitting S-1 documents to SEC for the highly anticipated initial public offering.

The interesting part is that the company posted the announcement on its official Twitter account today.

We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.

The documents that Twitter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are sealed, as Twitter is taking advantage of federal legislation passed last year that allows companies with less than $1 billion in revenue in its last fiscal year to avoid submitting public IPO documents.

Submitting under the S-1 provision under the Jobs Act confidentially will help Twitter avoid public scrutiny and will require that it provides sensitive company information just 21 days before the IPO.

It is expected that this will be the largest IPO of a tech company for 2013 and will reach $15-20 billion from the public offering. The IPO will be handled by Golden Sachs.

Minutes after officially posting the info that Twitter is submitting an IPO the twitter team posted a simple message:

 Twitter has a lot to do before the IPO. Good luck Twitter.

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Twitter App For Windows 8 Updated With New Features

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The official Windows 8 Twitter App got a new update which adds new and useful features. Another notable new feature is the multiple account support.

The announcement on  The Windows Experience blog states that users of the Twitter App for Windows 8 devices now have the ability to sign-in with multiple accounts.

The new Twitter app for Windows 8 also includes list support. Users can now go to their own Twitter profile, or the profile of another user, and view lists. The app also now allows people to pin lists to their Windows 8 Start screen, along with any other Twitter user profile. These offers power Twitter users a way to keep better track of the lists and profiles they track the most.

If you have Twitter for Windows 8 installed already, you will be offered the update soon.

If not, you can download the Twitter App for Windows 8 directly from the Windows Store!

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