12cast for iPhone 3GS!

Today we’re stoked to announce 12cast, the simplest way to get your videos to Twitter using the iPhone 3GS.

It’s free and available on the app store right now,click here.

Login with your Twitter account, tilt the phone to the left and you’re recording! Title your post and your video is on Twitter. Our goal was to make getting a video to Twitter as easy as possible. There’s a new 12cast award in it for you once you run the app too!

A quick note: If you already have a 12seconds account and have not connected your account with Twitter, you’ll want to do that BEFORE you login with 12cast. If the accounts aren’t linked, we won’t know its you and we’ll make a brand new account for you which might cause some confusion. If you’ve already done this and now have two accounts, shoot us an e-mail and we’ll try and work something out for you.

This marks an exciting day for us as this is our first native video iPhone app. It’s just for the iPhone 3GS right now but we’ve got other things up our collective sleeve for the rest of the proletariat. You can look forward to seeing 12seconds release some other innovative apps soon as well as integrating our service with some excellent partners.

#12cast Contest!

Our goal is to make sure everyone in the whole world knows about 12cast. So, we’re going to have a contest -anyone who uses the hashtag #12cast in any tweet or 12seconds post will get entered to win iPhone data service for 1 year. For every 12seconds post with #12cast you’ll get entered 3 times. You can enter as many times as you’d like. Don’t have an iPhone? We’ll give you the cold hard cash. Have an iPhone but want the cold hard cash instead? Okay. This contest will end on Friday August 7th at 5PM. We’ll announce the winner on Monday morning.

We need to enlist you to help get this contest started. So, please tweet:

#12cast for the iPhone 3GS gets video on Twitter in seconds & could win u a yr of your data plan. http://bit.ly/12cast PLS RT

or,click here and we’ll do all that hard work for you.

Cool community News

Voting on the Challenge: after long debate we have reinstated the challenge voting. It’s just like it used to be - you have 3 votes which you can give to challenge participants. The challenge ends at midnight PST so get all your votes in. We’ve also added a link in the challenge box to allow you to submit challenge suggestions to us! If you’ve got some fun questions to ask everyone, try it out and maybe we’ll use your question!

Today’s Challenge; WYRW (Would You Rather Wednesday):Would you rather have an extra $1000 or magically drop 10 pounds?

Have you seenJohnTMeyer’s 12secondtry? He tries something new and fun and challenges you to do the same. It’s like the daily challenge but a bit more physical. Check it out!

Live video chat with the 12seconds team TODAY @ 4 PM Pacific!

We’re opening up our office for some online “office hours” today at 4:00 for a live video chat on UStream. Come hang out with other 12ers, chat with @jakey12 and @thesolster, ask questions and see what’s new at 12seconds HQ. If you’ve got a webcam, we’ll also allow other 12ers to guest host for a few minutes. Just head over to 12second.tv and click the link at the top of the site.

Again, we’d be appreciative if you’dtweet this.

Thanks 12ers for spreading the word!