Vine Is Having Its 6 Seconds of Fame

Twitter has already established itself as a reliable news tool for media outlets, but will the company's video product head down the same path?

Vine, the video app owned by Twitter that allows users to take and share six-second videos, has already made two appearances in the news this week. When Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke's car caught fire on the side of a Los Angeles freeway on Monday, his wife posted clips from the incident to Vine (the video was subsequently embedded into various news stories about the fire

Another Vine video surfaced Tuesday of a truck flying over the guardrail of a Michigan freeway and into a creek. The Vine video was used by the Lansing State Journal in the original reporting of the accident, which took place on Aug. 16, and has since been shared by dozens of media outlets online Read more...