Joining Snapchat and Instagram, Vine Now Lets You Send Private Video Messages to All Your Contacts

Following in the footsteps of other messaging and media sharing apps, Vine announced today that with Vine Version 2.0 users can now send private video messages. Vine messages, dubbed VMs for short, can be sent to any of your contacts, even those who don’t use Vine. The update also brings enhanced options for customizing your… Continue reading Joining Snapchat and Instagram, Vine Now Lets You Send Private Video Messages to All Your Contacts

Facebook Jumps on the Private Photo Messaging Bandwagon With Instagram Direct

Instagram is a photo sharing community of 150 million people. And while it’s great that so many people can access and interact with your Instagrams, sometimes you don’t want the whole world to see your photos. Today Instagram debuted Instagram Direct, a private photo and video messaging service that will allow you to share your… Continue reading Facebook Jumps on the Private Photo Messaging Bandwagon With Instagram Direct

Is Twitter Aiming to Be the Next Mobile Chat Service?

With Snapchat gaining on Facebook in total number of photo uploads (and receiving multi-billion dollar acquisition offers), and Instagram rumored to be developing a private chat service, it might be due time for Twitter to join the private messaging bandwagon. To bolster its existing private messaging service, Twitter has added the ability to send pictures… Continue reading Is Twitter Aiming to Be the Next Mobile Chat Service?