We're excited to announce the we have acquired Frugalo.com, and we want to welcome our friends Mike and Scott onto the Twitvid team! We met the Frugalo founders a few months back and quickly learned that we shared the same passion for creating products that deliver a great social experience and help users discover and share. Frugalo's service helped deal buyers discover, share and manage the best deals from across the web. The founders have deep knowledge of personalization and building social experiences, and we are excited to have them onboard as we continue to build the best social video network for discovering, creating and sharing video. Mike will join us as head of product and Scott will lead our backend engineering team.

Every Tuesday on Twitvid we will pick our favourite video of the week - just upload your videos to take part but remember to help us find your Twitvids during the week by tweeting them under hashtag #TwitvidTuesday!

Here's what you get for taking part: 

• The video is featured as a winner on Twitvid’s homepage for a week with editorial
• You get a shiny winners badge on the video page and, if we really like it, a blog post about it.
• We tweet it out to all our followers!

Some weeks we'll run quick topical challenges under #TwitvidTuesday for people to video respond to - watch out for these :)

Hi Everyone!

This is a very exciting day for TwitVid. We’re beginning a joint program with Cleanwater.org to help bring safe and clean drinking water to people in developing nations. 

Diseases from unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Children are especially vulnerable, as their bodies aren't strong enough to fight diarrhea, dysentery and other illnesses.  Many of these diseases are preventable. The UN predicts that one tenth of the global disease burden can be prevented simply by improving water supply and sanitation.

Now we’ve made it really easy for you to help make a difference--simply by watching videos on TwitVid that are part of our Cleanwater.org effort.  Anyone with more than 50,000 Twitter followers can opt-in to the Cleanwater TwitVid effort by opting in to the program when uploading a video from Twitvid.com.  Once someone enters their video into the effort, TwitVid will then donate $1 for every 1,000 US video views that video generates. What can you do?  If you have over 50,000 Twitter followers, upload videos on Twitvid.  For those of you that want to help but don’t have that many followers, you can watch people that are have generously registered their videos. The more of you that view, the more TwitVid donates to Cleanwater.org.  Comic star Dane Cook is on board.  Support Dane’s Cleanwater efforts by watching his videos here http://www.twitvid.com/videos/danecook 

Encourage your favorite celebrities with over 50,000 followers to join the Cleanwater TwitVid effort. Retweet this link: 

Twitvid to donate $1 every 1K views to bring safe, clean drinking water to people in developing nations. Pls RT to help! goo.gl/i56X5

— Twitvid (@Twitvid) June 30, 2011

Together we can make a difference for those in the world that need clean water to survive. 

Mo and Adil

Hi All,

We’ve heard your requests and today are pleased to announce TwitVid.com is available on the Android! Click here to download the app for your Android: Link

Just like our app for the iPhone 3GS and Blackberry, the TwitVid.com app for the Android is the fastest and easiest way to automatically share mobile videos with your friends on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube.  Just open TwitVid, select or record your video, type your tweet, and click post!

Happy TwitVid-ing!

Hey guys,

Today, Britney Spears will be premiering “teasers” for her new music video, “3” exclusively on TwitVid. “3” is from her upcoming, The Singles Collection album which hits stores on November 10th. The videos will be posted in intervals throughout the day, so keep an eye on http://twitvid.com/videos/britneyspears and @britneyspears to make sure you don’t miss them. Her full video will officially premier this Friday, October 30th.

We are excited to announce that Jared Leto’s band, Thirty Seconds to Mars (http://www.thirtysecondstomars.com) has chosen TwitVid as the exclusive video tweeting service for their Digital Summit, an interactive online recording event that will allow content submitted by fans of the multi-platinum rock band to be included on their new album.   

Starting today, your mobile phone or PC can be a recording studio.  It’s simple, just record your own sounds and vocals and upload the video to Twitter via TwitVid. The band will select content from the submissions and include them in the album. 

Thirty Seconds to Mars chose TwitVid, for the band’s million member fan base, because the technology that powers TwitVid is one of a kind, and delivers a better experience than anyone else.  And they know our user base rocks! 

Hi Everyone,

We’re excited to announce the availability of the new TwitterFon iPhone app, with video tweeting powered by TwitVid. Our TwitterFon friends have been working hard to bring you the best TwitterFon video tweeting app possible. Twitterfon is one of the most popular free Twitter apps available on the iPhone. The new updated version of Twitterfon now lets all of you iPhone 3GS users add videos to your Tweets - fast, easily and reliably. The "fast" comes from TwitVid’s Instant Media Engine.  It lets your followers start watching your videos asap - even before your video has finished uploading.  That’s something that’s totally unique to TwitVid.

You can get started now.  Inject more creativity and excitement—more you—into your tweets! Download the app here and let us know what you think.

We have some exciting news!  Today, the Apple Store has made our new TwitVid.com app available for the Apple iPhone 3GS.  TwitVid.com gives iPhone users the fastest and easiest way to share videos with their Twitter followers and Facebook, MySpace and YouTube friends.  And people without an Apple iPhone 3GS can still add video to their tweets via TwitVid.com.  TwitVid.com is the best way to share video no matter what social network you’re using.

And we don’t just deliver video—we make it easy, reliable and with the quality you expect—no stuttering or sputtering or waiting for posting.  Just your video, to your friends, now.  As a matter of fact TwitVid.com is the only video app that lets your friends start watching your video even before you’ve finished uploading it to TwitVid.com.  When we say the fastest, we mean it.

The way we do it is through some pretty cool technology starting with our Instant Media Engine.  But we won’t bore you with the details here.

Mobile video has now become the best way to share your life experiences with your friends. Video can even shape current events and ultimately, history as the recent Iranian election videos have shown.  You can find the new TwitVid.com iPhone app at http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=317646079&mt=8

So start letting people see the world as you see it.  Share away!

Hi Everyone,

Twitter has revolutionized the way we communicate and now we’ve taken it a step further.  Today, on the heels of Apple’s announcement of video recording functionality for the new iPhone 3GS, we’ve announced an exciting partnership with TwitterFon, the most popular Twitter application for the iPhone.  This partnership allows iPhone users to easily Tweet mobile videos to their Twitter followers by using the TwitVid.com platform.  Best of all, your Twitter followers can begin watching those videos instantly – even before you’ve finished uploading the video. 

TwitVid is the only Twitter video service that allows instant playback—which we feel is key to the user experience.

We are very proud to be adding video to the most popular Twitter iPhone app and making it even more fun to communicate with the people that are important to you.  The TwitVid enabled TwitterFon app will be available soon at www.twitterfon.com, and of course, let us know what you think.

Thanks,

Adil