At the end of January 2013 Twitter launched Vine, a video-sharing service based on an app the company acquired the previous October. Vine is a smartphone app that makes the process of capturing and uploading short videos a breeze. It’s the video equivalent of Instagram, though thankfully people appear to be doing more with Vine than merely recording what they’re eating on any given day.At its core Vine is a simple way for anyone and everyone to record a video fit for consumption on social media sites. However, Vine has the capacity to be so much more. All it requires is some lateral thinking on the part of those making the videos. What follows are eight creative ways to use those six seconds you’re afforded on each Vine video.In the same way that normal text tweets can be embedded, so can those which include a Vine video. This means that an example for each of the creative uses for Vine has an accompanying video clip from a random Twitter user that will auto-play. They’re all muted by default, but to turn the sound on just click the volume button on the top right-hand corner of each video.Create a Stop Motion AnimationThe kids first stop motion Vine vine.co/v/b1wIOtEthIeâ€" Grey Garner (@gpgarner) February 2, 2013 Stop motion is a form of animation which sees the creator move stationary figures around one frame at a time in order to create the illusion of movement. The best examples of the genre are the Wallace and Gromit films. Vine is the perfec
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