You can now put your Twitter profile on Vine and vice versa

Twitter today announced closer integration with Vine. If you’ve connected your Twitter and Vine accounts, you can put your Twitter account on your Vine profile and your Vine account on your Twitter profile.

You can now put your Twitter username on your Vine profile and it will also show up “in other places throughout the app, like in VMs.” When someone taps your Twitter username, they’ll be taken to your Twitter account, and they can follow you there. This is more than just a simple link that confirms your Vine account is actually yours: Vine users will be able to search for your Twitter handle to find you on Vine.

You can now also choose to show and link to your Vine account from your Twitter profile. When people go to your Twitter profile, they’ll see a Vine icon alongside your total loops. Tapping that link will take them to your account on Vine, and they can follow you from there.

Vine profiles have also gained a new feature: account loops. The same number you see when Vine is shown on Twitter profiles will also show up on your Vine profile. Loops are counted every time a Vine is watched on the service, which includes the official Vine mobile apps and website, embeds across the web, and Twitter.

Here is Twitter’s explanation of why this number matters:

As people make great Vines that others love and want to watch, those creators get more and more loops. By surfacing that number to the world, anyone can quickly get a sense of that creator and the impact of their Vines.

In other words, this is just another number that social media addicts will compete over for the hell of it.

All of the above requires that you have the latest versions of Vine for iOS, Twitter for iOS, or Twitter for Android. A Vine for Android update is also on its way.