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"McMike" (mcmike) 02/28/2017 at 09:29 • Filed to: None

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The Williams social media person at pre-season testing is filming everything in portrait.   

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Patrick Nichols > McMike 02/28/2017 at 09:33

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Hot take: portrait videos are better for twitter since most views are on phones...

McMike > Patrick Nichols 02/28/2017 at 09:38

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That’s the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Twitter is not a mobile-only applicaion.

Hotter take. You can rotate your phone, you can’t rotate your monitor.

EL_ULY > Patrick Nichols 02/28/2017 at 09:38

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Hotter take: If filmed correctly, ALL devices would benefit.

Azrek > Patrick Nichols 02/28/2017 at 09:39

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TheTurbochargedSquirrel > McMike 02/28/2017 at 09:43

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It works for twitter because twitter displays full size portrait videos. It is an issue in youtube and the like because they always display a landscape window with the portrait video compressed to fit.

Patrick Nichols > McMike 02/28/2017 at 09:49

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This is my regular setup at work...

Patrick Nichols > McMike 02/28/2017 at 09:51

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Also twitter is most popular as a mobile application to kill time

McMike > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 02/28/2017 at 09:56

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That would make sense if Twitter was only available on non-mobile platforms.

McMike > Patrick Nichols 02/28/2017 at 09:57

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YOU AREN’T HELPING

Noah - Now with more boost. > McMike 02/28/2017 at 09:58

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They could be using snapchat or instagram, both of which are heavy on the vertical videos because they’re primarily used on mobile. Source: I’m a social media analyst :) gotta get a job like that though... getting paid to hang out and post about car stuff would be a dream come true

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > McMike 02/28/2017 at 10:00

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My point is that unlike youtube you don’t lose resolution and size with a portrait video on twitter.

McMike > Patrick Nichols 02/28/2017 at 10:01

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I see people watching landscape podcasts and videos every day on their mobile devices so I know people’s wrists still work.

McMike > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 02/28/2017 at 10:07

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You also won’t lose resolution if you just watched a landscape Twitter video in landscape. You turn the phone to watch it, turn it back when finished.

Portrait in this case is a shitty format. These are cars. Cars move horizontally across the planet.

Portrait is more often than not lazy and ignorant and rarely intentional.

McMike > Noah - Now with more boost. 02/28/2017 at 10:13

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I’m aware of Snapchat’s format, and I have no problem with it - that is, until it leaves the snapchat app.

The only mobile format I never complained about was Vine’s and Instagram’s 1:1 ratio.

Noah - Now with more boost. > McMike 02/28/2017 at 10:19

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Yeah Instagram drives me nuts, I’m not looking forward to learning and using it...