Facebook is making it easier to replace your profile photo with a profile video. It began allowing people to use a seven-second video in place of a profile photo last year, and now Facebook is rolling out a tool that'll allow video apps to make one for you.
Facebook will let Vine and other apps shoot video profile pictures
Facebook
is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade.
Boomerang and MSQRD will also add support
Apps like Vine, Instagram’s Boomerang, and Facebook’s MSQRD will soon have buttons that let them send videos you capture directly over to Facebook, where they’ll be put in place as your new profile image. Other apps will be able to support this too. “If you’re building a selfie cam app ... you can plug this in seamlessly to Facebook,” says Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer.
Facebook is calling its new tool the “profile expression kit,” and it’s being made available to developers of camera apps so that they can start adding this integration. It’s a small feature — most of these apps integrate with Facebook in one way or another already — but it’ll certainly make adding a profile video much easier than it’s been in the past and maybe even make more people aware that profile videos exist.
Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
Most Popular
Most Popular
- Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
- Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
- Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices
- Can anyone look cool wearing Snap’s $2,000 glasses?
- Apple’s smart home camera service is starting to impress me
