Twitter is expanding its Vine video service, giving users the option of watching full-screen clips on their personal computers.
The new service allows members to watch sequences of videos and use a full computer screen for viewing.
While Vine began as a mobile app for sharing short videos from smartphones, the new service gives more options to PC users.
Twitter bought the small team at Vine, a startup based in New York, in October 2012, prompting talk the messaging service intended to do for smartphone video what Instagram did for pictures.
"Today, we're introducing a new way to experience Vine: on the web," said a blog post from engineer Janessa Det.
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Web users can like, comment and share videos and share their profile with others so they can see their posts, she said.
Vine said in August that it had 40 million users.
