Twitter’s Vine app is groaning under the weight of over 13 million humans sharing absolutely everything about their lives, no matter how banal and uninteresting, via six-second snippets (Facebook is competing with the launch of video for Instagram, which launched last week). And while some creative types believe restrictions lead to better solutions, this Funny or Die clip shows the short-format approach isn’t too well-suited to making ads.
Speaking of Vine, here’s a compilation of Vines from the unofficial king of the nascent service Will Sasso:
And here’s an Instagram video from Kiwi boy Taika Waititi showing the world the creative possibility of Instagram’s motion picture feature.