Twitter Takes Selfies to the Next Level With Drones

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Seth Fiegerman
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Twitter Takes Selfies to the Next Level With Drones
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The selfie is dead. Long live the dronie.

Twitter kicked off the Cannes Lions international advertising festival in southern France on Sunday by using drones to take Vine videos above the heads of Twitter employees with various attendees. The videos are being shared on a new Twitter account called Dronie.

The first dronie posted to the account was of Patrick Stewart, who is in a new Twitter documentary intended for ad industry executives at Cannes.

And with our first official #dronie from #CannesLions, a new bromance is born! cc @SirPatStew @joell https://t.co/ZL5PthcRkh

— Dronie (@dronie) June 15, 2014

 

The dronie Twitter account has shared half a dozen videos, as of publication, since launching on Sunday.

.@pedroporto gives our dronie a bit of a push! #CannesLions https://t.co/ip8HhjZb4B

— Dronie (@dronie) June 16, 2014

 

Introducing a new kind of #Dronie that's out of this world! Starring @joell @willstick @vranicawsj #CannesLions https://t.co/BnIDVjOaJv

— Dronie (@dronie) June 16, 2014

 

.@skalifowitz and @freddie_covi on the ground with Twitter Ads at #CannesLions! https://t.co/nAZGsyoirQ

— Dronie (@dronie) June 16, 2014

 

Your move, Ellen.

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