It's a tiny change on a relatively small social network. Still, the ability to edit a Vine caption after you post your six-second video represents a break from parent company Twitter, where users have long been asking for the ability to edit tweets.
The new Vine feature, which is only available on Android today and coming to iOS "soon," arrived on Tuesday as part of a collection of mostly minor updates. Importantly, it's not a full-on editing feature. Instead, Vine will let you edit the Vine caption for "a brief period of time." How long is that? Vine isn’t saying, though a little trial and error should reveal the limitations of the feature pretty quickly.
In any case, it's not like Vine is letting you edit your video and re-upload it to an existing Vine. This is for the caption and, in Vine, text pays less of a role than in, say, a tweet. It's a supporting character, mostly serving as the title card for the short video it accompanies.
Even so, the caption is the tweet if you simultaneously push your Vine to the native platform and Twitter. Does a Vine caption edit have any effect on the Twitter side? Nope.
Vine star Zach King (3.8M followers) welcomes the updates. "Being able to edit a Vine caption is actually a helpful feature for creators. Often times I find that fans write out a better caption in the comment section or I realize something that explains the video more concisely after I've posted," he wrote in an email to Mashable.
Other updates include the ability to sort how another user's Vines will appear in your feed. You access the feature through a small icon on the Vine account page for a user you follow (right next to the number of posts) and it lets you view their Vines posts by Newest, Oldest or most Popular.
"This feature is long overdue, so I'm glad to see it in this new update," said King.
At press time, the feature had yet to appear on our updated app. A Twitter spokesperson promised we'd be seeing it soon.
Apple iOS 3D Touch support (which only works with the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus) was also added. It lets you Explore or launch a Vine creation directly from the iPhone home screen. This one worked right now and it's a nice, if unspectacular feature.
Source: Mashable