Vine app is arriving to Windows Phone 8

Vine, Twitter-owned mobile video app, is coming to the Windows Phone 8 operating system about six months after its initial launch on iOS. Nokia made the announcement on Thursday in the press release for its launch of the Lumia 1020 Windows 8 smartphone, which will be made available in the U.S. later this month.

Vine works as a tool for people to record and share six-second, looping videos, in keeping with Twitter’s 140-character tweet limit. Vine has been adding new features to the app over the past several months.On Wednesday, A Web embed functionality was just introduced and last week the software got some new camera features and an option for users to lock their posts.

Vine will be coming soon to the phone, Nokia said, though it didn’t reveal the exact timing. Twitter declined to provide additional details, but “we can confirm that Vine will be coming to Windows Phone,” a spokeswoman said. The private social-networking site Path, as well as the Flipboard social news aggregator will also be coming soon to Windows Phone, Nokia said.

Vine is working hard to compete Instagram. Instagram already offering its app to iOS and Android but it does not offer a dedicated app for any type of Windows Phone.  So at this moment vine is focused on building approach to windows phone 8 devices.