Vine Vs. Video On Instagram: The Jockeying Starts Early, But Is There Room For Both?

Is there enough room for both Twitter-owned video-sharing application Vine and Video on Instagram, which was introduced at a press event Thursday at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.? Time will tell, but the jockeying for position began long before Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his counterpart at Instagram, Kevin Systrom, took the stage Thursday.

Is there enough room for both Twitter-owned video-sharing application Vine and Video on Instagram, which was introduced at a press event Thursday at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.? Time will tell, but the jockeying for position began long before Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his counterpart at Instagram, Kevin Systrom, took the stage Thursday.

Facebook fired the first shot in January, when it blocked Vine’s access to its find friends data, with Facebook Director of Platform Partnerships and Operations Justin Osofsky saying at the time that apps that allow users to share data back to Facebook are OK, while those that do not violate the site’s platform policy.

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