The people who created YouTube are getting into the quickie-video app business ... with a twist. MixBit, like Vine and now Instagram, lets users upload short videos from their smartphones. But that's just the beginning of what creators Steve Chen and Chad Hurley -- two of the three brains behind YouTube -- envision for the app, which went live on Thursday. MixBit lets users shoot video snippets up to 16 seconds in length -- more than Instagram (15 seconds) and Vine (6 seconds). Once uploaded, all MixBit videos are fair game for other users to edit, splice and mix with their own, creating new videos up to an hour long.
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MixBit, released Thursday, lets users create and edit short videos
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It's from two of the creators of YouTube
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Users can splice up to 256 videos together to create their own
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Web, Apple versions are out now, Android is coming next month
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