12seconds, a wonderful little video microblogging service that works tightly with twitter, has announced a free iPhone 3GS application and is kicking it off with a bitchin’ contest. Let’s start with the app itself, although it’s pretty self explanatory. After loading it up, all you have to do is tilt the iPhone sideways to launch the video recorder, and after hitting the record button, you’re ready to for your 12 second-long video. After that, you can review or upload a preexisting video instead, add a title, or send it out to the twittersphere. Pretty snazzy, but from my experience, it would be nice if there was an audio alert when the 12 seconds were up, as well as when the recording began. Heck, automatically starting the recording as soon as the camera app launched would help you get going even more quickly. In any case, if you’re at all into twitter, be sure to check out the 12cast app on iTunes.
As for the contest, Tweet or 12 with the hashtag #12cast, and you’ll get three entries in a chance to win 1 year of free data service (or the equivalent in cash if you’d prefer). Further details can be found over here, but the contest ends on August 7th., a mere two days away, so get tweeting (just make sure to throw a RT @IntoMobile in there).