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Not a big online video watcher, I immediately liked TwitVid.io, who wants to be the twitPic of video sharing on twitter. It’s very easy to use, you upload a video or snap up from webcam, tweet it, done. The online media from big to small immediately went nuts about this new born baby. Few realized how fast it went from an idea to prototype; To feel the energy of the people behind the project, get an idea who are the celebrities using twitVid.io, read on for my interview with TwitVid.io cofounder Chrys Bader, a fellow San Franciscan.

1. How did you come up with the idea for twitVid.io? What is the current vid-sharing landscape on twitter and how would you think twitVid.io is well/better positioned to address than others?

The idea was pretty obvious. I was sitting around with some of my peers and someone asked us why someone hasn’t done TwitVid.io yet. To which I replied, we could do it in 4 days. My friend then challenged us to do it, so we did just that. We started TwitVid.io from scratch on May 11 and launched it on May 15.

I believe we’re ahead of the game because we were first to market and we have had the strongest traction and adoption. Once we launched, competitors followed suit and it’s made it all more interesting and fun.

2. How is your professional/personal background serving up this venture (your background, your vision for twitVid.io)?
TwitVid.io is an extension of our existing video sharing platform called Fliggo (www.fliggo.com). We’ve been working on Fliggo since November 2007 and have garnered a substantial amount of experience in developing video sites. I personally have been a web developer for 10 years and have always been addicted to created websites. Our vision for TwitVid.io is to remain the #1 way to share videos on Twitter and to eventually become one of the largest video sharing sites as Twitter continues to grow rampantly.

3. What is the core technology behind twitVid.io? How long did it take you to launch the site. Are you bootstrapping or full blown start up with funding? Given video sharing could be resource-draining thing, How will you scale twitVid.io before accumulating too much expanses?
TwitVid.io is powered by the Fliggo platform. As I mentioned before, it took us 4 days to launch the site. We are a Y-Combinator funded company and are currently raising a round. TwitVid.io will be moving completely over to AWS in the next month and will relieve our scaling needs.

4. Based on your experiences, who are the people using twitVid.io and what do they say about twitVid.io?
A plethora of people are using TwitVid.io. Anything from a person just saying hello, to first-time video bloggers, to long-time video bloggers, to celebrities and brands. We’ve seen people like MC Hammer, Kevin Rose, iJustine, and Tim Ferriss using our site as well as brands and organizations like Playboy, AAA, Six Flags, the NBA, as well as various other companies. Also popular YouTubers like CharlesTrippy and FAIL TOYS are prominent users of TwitVid.io.

5. If there is one thing, what is it that you think will be the key to twitVid.io’s success?
The key to our success has been and will be our ability to attract and maintain influential users as well as providing an engaging, high quality experience for all of our users. We care deeply about the user experience on TwitVid.io, and the amount of time and passion we put into it is reflected by our strong userbase and evangelist users.

6. What is the business model?
Currently we only run advertising on the site. But we have some exciting plans for monetization that I can’t go in to just yet. We are currently working on a handful of very promising relationships.

7. How’s growth prospect for twitVid.io and what kind of future plans are in the work? Technology, Partnership, product offering, marketing.etc
I keep answering your questions before you ask them We have some exciting partnerships in the works, nothing that I can divulge just yet, but we’re eager to announce them. Our goal is to have a video posted every minute by the end of July, and we’re getting closer every day! Keep an eye out for exciting partnerships and integrations coming in the near future.

8. Anything else you want to share with the world?
I like turtles! Anyway, I just want to share my appreciation to all of our early users who have helped us test and supported our efforts. Our site would be nothing without the users, so much love to everyone who is TwitViding!