Lately, Facebook has been doing some massive changes here and there, like the recently launched hashtag support, new and improved page insights and yesterday it announced video for Instagram.

Surprised? Nah... and why not? After Twitter launched the Vine app, there were rumors that Facebook too was working on a similar app and with the announcement yesterday everything got crystal clear. Facebook-Twitter war is on!

Instagram's co-founder Kevin Systrom made an official announcement about the Instagram video in San Francisco on Thursday and as per what he said he has been working on it since 2010.

According to the announcement, this functionality is aimed to make the process of video making and sharing as easy as possible. "Today, we’re thrilled to introduce Video on Instagram and bring you another way to share your stories. When you go to take a photo on Instagram, you’ll now see a movie camera icon. Tap it to enter video mode, where you can take up to fifteen seconds of video through the Instagram camera."

The updated app looks the same, it's just that next to the main capture icon now you have a video camera icon as well.



The best part about Instagram video is that you can also delete a video by just tapping on it, unlike Twitter's Vine app.

Here's a sneak peek into the Instagram video below. Have a look:




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