With Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of the popular photo-sharing app Instagram, is a video version next on the horizon?
ReadWriteWeb profiles two such social video apps — Socialcam and Viddy.
Socialcam is an iPhone and Android app that claims to have 20 million users. Viddy is an iPhone-only app with some 16 million users. Both apps allow you to take video from your smartphone and apply filter effects, add music and upload to your favorite social network such as to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Tumblr.
“Both services are polished and nicely designed apps,” suggests the review. “But forget the filters and cheesy music, the real value will be in how many users each can get — and how active those users become. It’s too early to tell which has the upper hand on that front. Both are heading towards the user numbers that Instagram had when it sold (about 35 million).”
Will video become the next big thing on social networks?
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