TwitVid launches on the iPhone, cracks open world of video tweeting

July 13, 2009 | Kim-Mai Cutler | Comments |
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TwitVid.com launched a mobile app today for quick video tweets and uploads, capitalizing on iPhone 3GS’ new video capabilities.

The TwitVid app lets you record a video, write a tweet and then post it to your Twitter account. It comes out less than a month after Apple released its latest version of the iPhone, equipped with new video functionality.

Last month, we reported that TwitVid was partnering with TwitterFon to do exactly the same thing, but it seems natural for the company to jump in directly with its own app.

Other startups are betting that personal video publishing will explode on the back of increasingly powerful video capabilities from smartphones. A week ago, competitor Qik.com announced it had raised $5.5 million from Quest Venture Partners and CampVentures.

TwitVid.com comes from EatLime, Inc., a company founded last year by Waterloo University students Mo Adham and Adil Lalan i. It’s backed with money from venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and a group of angel investors, Amidzad, former Google employees Georges Harik and Aydin Senkut, as well as XG Ventures, another group of former Googlers.

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Kim-Mai was born and raised a stone's throw from Apple headquarters in Cupertino by a devout Hewlett-Packard family. After attending UC Berkeley, Kim-Mai worked for Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in New York, Los Angeles, London and Buenos Aires. Follow her on Twitter at @kimmaicutler, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.

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  • Video on the iPhone is great. I have been using VideoUp for Facebook over the weekend and it is incredibly convenient to upload videos as you make them - rather than waiting until you sync them to the computer.

    I think the 3G S will open the door for a number of really exciting apps featuring video uploading/editing.

    Will we see an iMovie for the iPhone? I hope so.
  • 3gsowner
    Been waiting for something like this. Hope there isn't too small of a limit on video size for uploading.
  • N97User
    I just hope the bandwidth holds out. But then again, I want to download podcasts, Qik it, watch mobile TV, etc. on my Nokia 97, which I use on AT&T's network (same as iPhone users for those not in the know).
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