Washington: Technology, once again, has taken a whole new turn. How about shooting a video and making it go viral as per your needs. You ask me how?
After Meerkat and Twitter’s live video streaming app Periscope, social networking giant Facebook has launched a new app called called Riff, an app which allows users to create collaborative videos with their friends.
The standalone app has been designed as an evolving mix of clips that revolve around a specific topic. The app is meant to work like a video version of the Facebook chat thread, where users can make additions and make it go viral.
When users create a Riff video for the first time, they can tag a friend and make it trend. The app is available on both iOS and Android mobile devices.
After installing the app, users can suggest a topic such as #Tomorrowland and record a video for up to 20 seconds. A user’s Facebook friend can then view the clip, and can also add in their 20-second video, thus converting a small click into a huge video, very quickly.
“Recently, a few Facebook employees stayed after-hours to work on a side project. Our hunch was that if you could make videos collaboratively, the creative process would be more fun and the final product would be cooler. Today, we are introducing Riff, a creative tool to make videos with friends,†Josh Miller, product manager at Facebook, said.
Miller said Riff was inspired by the viral spread of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014, where millions around the world soaked themselves with iced water to raise money for charity
The app is currently available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese and Polish.