Twitter has just updated its Vine app!
Vine is now packed with new features allowing users to receive notifications and to favorite accounts so you will never miss the Viners that you love.
Vine is the best way to see and share life in motion. Create short, beautiful, looping videos in a simple and fun way for your friends and family to see.
- Unlimited uploads and free
- Instantly post videos on Vine, then share to Twitter and Facebook
- Find, follow, and interact with people close to you
- Explore trending posts, featured hashtags and editor's picks
• And so much more
Through this new feature "favorite" other Vine users will give you a "notification" whenever they post a Vine, which includes both a push notification to your device and an update in your activity feed. You can view all your favorites in the Settings of the app, and you can also update your notifications in case you start getting too many.
To favorite an account just go to their profile page and tap the star in the top-right corner. Therefore, if you follow a large number of Vine users, this will ensure you don't miss new videos from your favorite Viners.
Twitter came up with this solution as a response for complaints that Vine is being flooded with content and missing out on the best clips, and to user suggestions: "As always, these changes happen with your help and feedback. Reach out to us anytime at @vinehelp - we're listening."
Vine's changelog also says that users "may also notice some performance enhancements that make Vine, well ... perform better," though Twitter didn't share what exactly it changed or how much of an improvement you can expect.
This Vine update is only available to Android and iOS users. The Windows Phone version, released back in November 2013, has not been updated since December 2013. When the Windows Phone app launched, it had a unique feature: being able to pin your favorite Vine accounts to your homescreen that lets them to avoid missing Vines from their favorite users.
