Twitter previously revealed plans to roll out a video service that would function similar to YouTube and Vimeo in allowing users to uploaded longer videos than Vine, which Twitter acquired. In a November announcement, the San Francisco company hinted at a “first half of 2015” launch but did not provide further details. Turns out, a FAQ page for the service was already posted, and it only took a sleuth Twitter user Daniel Raffel to discover it in plain sight.
The page, located at video.twitter.com/faq, indicates that Twitter’s new video service will likely be called Twitter Video and be wholly different from Vine, where users can upload looping 6-second video clips, according to Slashgear.
The new video service will support MP4 and .mov video formats and suggests 16:9 aspect ratio, while also allowing .jpg and .png image files to be uploaded as thumbnails. The videos can be up to 10 minutes long, although it appears the file size is not capped.
It’s still unclear what the user interface of Twitter Video will look like, and the FAQ page does not list a launch date. It describes a publishing interface with an “upload” button in a dashboard and a link to quickly tweet it. There is no tool to edit or schedule the video, but that is likely to be tweeked as the service is rolled out. Third-party programs may also provide these services.
Twitter Video will only host videos uploaded directly, meaning the service will not accept and host videos from YouTube, Vimeo or other video services – which will essentially be rendered rivals. The Twitter Video FAQ page suggests that same videos can be hosted across platforms, but will “just need to be uploaded to each one individually,” Slashgear reported.
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