12seconds: Video Twitter
June 26, 2008 by Mike Abundo
Filed under Computers
12seconds is exactly what its name implies: a video-sharing site with a twelve-second length restriction. Yes, it’s video Twitter, and they’re not ashamed to call themselves that.
Given that Twitter’s having trouble scaling with just text, you have to wonder how a video Twitter would scale. Twitter’s architecture is built to handle its microblogging aspect, but not its messaging aspect; that’s why it goes down a lot. Hope 12seconds avoids that pitfall.
Hi,
Video sharing is all the rage these days. We all want to share our videos, to share our passions and the things we like. There are so many sites around to publish our videos on the web that it is sometimes hard to make a choice. We know some of them like YouTube, Revver or Dailymotion, but there are so many others competing to be the number one, or targeting a specific audience, whether geographically (China, Japan, Turkey…), by language (German, Arabic, French…) or for the kind of content they enable to publish (cooking, planes, extreme sports…).
I have compiled a growing list of more than 700 video sharing sites, video search engines, and video download sites that you can check at http://www.ilikesharingvideos.com
For each of them, you will get useful information such as their history, the country from which most of their visitors come, their niche, their rank, their latest news…
This site offers some other interesting features, like a forum about online videos, how to make money with your videos, how to create your own YouTube site, etc.
So if you are interested in video sharing or online video marketing, give an eye to this site, it worths it.
Cheers
I agree with statements made by Gabe Mac on Mobuzz TV, 12 secs probably isn’t long enough. It should be closer to 30 seconds. You won’t get as many users as Twitter because most people are sensitive about their looks but video requires more power so I wonder if you’ll be able to keep up with demand.
A final point, does it integrate with Twitter, e.g. can if I record a video, will a link to it be sent to my Twitterstream?
Jacob from 12Seconds here… we definitly link up with twitter and we’ll tweet a link to your latest 12Seconds post whenever you update on our site or send in a mobile video.
This is really a good idea. We have thought exactly the same a year ago, we created spOtmob. It is online, check it and try it!
http://www.spotmob.com
…and your life?