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itemprop=”articleBody description text”> The bricks keep falling into place for Vine, Twitter’s hot six-second micro video app.

itemprop=”articleBody description text”> After debuting on iOS way back in the beginning of the year, Vine landed on Android in June, but note on Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD tablets, Which run a forked version of Android and only rock a front-facing camera designed for video chats Primarily.

itemprop=”articleBody description text”> But fear not, affordable tablet fans: Mere days after Vine for Android added selfie-inducing front camera support, version 1.2 of the app is now available in the Amazon App Store.

Vine's selfies

itemprop=”articleBody description text”> Suddenly, the addition of That modest front-facing camera feature seems much more momentous.

itemprop=”articleBody description text”> Instagram’s newfound video portability pits the Facebook-owned app head-to-head against Twitter’s Vine, but Instagram has yet to release a Kindle Fire-compatible version of its app. Amazon does not announce sales figures for its slate, but the Kindle Fire lineup indubitably accounts for a major slice of the Android pie; into January, app analytics company Localytics Estimated That one in three Android tablets sold came from Amazon.

itemprop=”articleBody description text”> And now, All Those Kindle Fire HDs can flood Twitter with a torrent of six-second selfie videos. Be afraid, Internet. Be very afraid.

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