Instagram allows you to upload videos and 15 seconds long

Facebook has stood up to rival Twitter and presented on Thursday a video tool to its popular photo app Instagram . The social network trying to compete with the app of your opponent, Vine , which has grown rapidly in recent months.

"Our mobile strategy has evolved and we are focused on developing a number of different applications," explained Mark Zukerberg, the creator of Facebook.

The new tool allows users to create and share video clips up to 15 seconds, a little longer than those of Vine. In addition, the co-founder of Instagram, Kevin Systrom, added that the application will have 13 filters that modify the tone of the video image, as already happens with your photos.

The same but with more chances
"This is the same Instagram you know and love, but moves" Systrom has insisted in making this app that is built into the photo editing program that is now available for users who have phones with an operating system Apple or Android.

The new instrument is complemented by a new tool called "Cinema", which stabilizes video images automatically.

"When you post a video, you can also select your favorite scene you've recorded and set it as your cover image, so that your videos are beautiful even when they are not playing" Systrom highlighted in a post on the official blog Instagram.

Facebook acquired last year Instagram, a popular tool to quickly edit photos taken with mobile phone and add multiple filters.

Facebook already has a million advertisers

The last few weeks have been pretty convoluted to Facebook. has been accused of collaborating with the U.S. government supposedly to spy on its users, and has recognized the existence of a bug that has sent voluntarily to other personal details six million users. But that does not seem to affect the Internet giant, which is premiering services like video support on Instagram.

Now, in an entry on the official blog of the social network, Dan Levy, Director of the Small Business Administration announces that Facebook has reached one million advertisers, most of them belonging to the small business. Data refer to active companies have hired advertising in the last month. There is a record for an Internet company since Google reached this figure in 2007, but keep in mind that Facebook is a social network where people looking for relationships, while Google is a search engine more focused on locating information, often directly related purchases or businesses that offer their advertisers.

According to the company reveals Forbes, Facebook has reached the two million million connections between users and small businesses. 70% of American users contact local businesses through the network.

To show the benefit which is to advertise with them, Facebook Spain has a website where actual data collected testimonies and small businesses have increased their sales and customer base to advertise there.

This is data that, from the point of view of business, are positive for Facebook, but not relevant to the billions of network users seeking mainly personal and family contacts, and are not interested in advertising.

Facebook: Facts six million accounts were exposed by security flaw

A security flaw in Facebook exposed the personal contact information (e-mail or telephone number) peronas six million other users who would be associated with them, as TechCrunch reported .

This fault has been affecting the above accounts for a year, Yahoo said today . They said that "no evidence has been made malicious use" of this error.

"When people upload their contact lists or address book to Facebook, we try to match that information with the contact information of other users to generate recommendations 'friends'" said Facebook security team.

"Due to the failure, a part of the information used to make recommendations from friends, and reduce the number of invitations sent, was saved-without warning-with contact details of people as part of their information on Facebook" , continues the statement.

"As a result, if a person downloads a file on your own Facebook account through the Download Your Information, e-mails would have found additional or telephone numbers belonging to his 'friends' or other people that are related on Facebook ".

The security team said that has not been provided any type of financial information and, in most cases, e-mails and phone were exposed to a single person.

Have not received complaints from users and regulators in the United States, Canada and Europe, where the accounts affected, have already been notified.

Facebook admits security failure ... and solved

The social network has acknowledged a bug which has been accessible private contact information up to a total of six million users, so that their e-mail addresses or phone numbers may be accessible to anyone who downloaded the historical their accounts on their own computers.

Given that Facebook has over 1,000 million users can give the impression that a total of six million is not such large numbers by percentage of the total.

According to the statement released by Facebook , "part of the contact information of a person (email address or telephone number) may be accessed by persons having some kind of contact information for the person or some kind of connection with her . " Thus, by using the utility "decargar Your Information" Facebook members received inadvertent phone numbers or email addresses for some of your social network friends and they are, on the other hand , private character.

The bug in question has not been found by the Facebook team but by a third by the hacker program "White Hat" offered a prize to anyone who finds fault on the site, paying a minimum reward of $ 500 per bug. This award is based on the severity and creativity of the bug.

Finally, Facebook says it has no evidence that anyone has had the chance someone may have exploited the bug for malicious, plus they have not received any complaints from users about the fact that they have noted any anomalous activity.