{"id":5657,"date":"2018-11-11T10:41:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T06:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2018-11-11T10:41:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T06:41:11","slug":"vine-co-founder-plans-sequel-to-shuttered-video-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/11\/11\/vine-co-founder-plans-sequel-to-shuttered-video-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Vine co-founder plans sequel to shuttered video app"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the co-founders of six-second video app Vine, which was closed down by Twitter in 2017, has announced that he\u2019s working on a successor to the app.<\/p>\n

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Dom Hofmann, who co-founded Vine in 2012, announced on Twitter that he\u2019s developing a new app named Byte which will focus on looping video clips, just as Vine did.<\/p>\n

Mr Hofmann said that Byte will be released in Spring 2019, but no other details of the app have been annouced so far.<\/p>\n

Twitter acquired Vine before its launch in 2012, and the app became immensely popular due to the number of social media stars who used its six-second video format to create short comedy and music clips.<\/p>\n

Logan Paul, who has become one of YouTube\u2019s biggest stars, started his career on Vine before switching to longer YouTube videos. Another Vine star, Cameron Dallas, was given his own Netflix series.<\/p>\n

However, Twitter closed down Vine in 2017. The decision to close the service came as Vine struggled to retain its top stars. The app had also faced increasing competition from Facebook-owned Instagram, which also allows people to post brief video clips.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dom Hofmann: our new looping video app is called byte. launching spring 2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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T<\/span>witter\u2019s decision to shut down Vine angered many fans of the app. Comedian Melanie Bracewell, who was a user on the app, tweeted \u201cYou can rip my 4 million vine loops out of my cold dead hands\u201d after Twitter announced the closure of the service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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V<\/span>ine co-founder Rus Yusupov publicly criticised the decision, tweeting \u201cDon\u2019t sell your company!\u201d after Twitter\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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M<\/span>r Hofmann is hoping that his upcoming app will tap into the same fanbase which Vine previously enjoyed.<\/p>\n

Last year, Mr Hofmann announced that he was working on v2, a spiritual successor to Vine. That project was abandoned in May, however, with Mr Hofmann citing funding issues with the service.<\/p>\n

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Telegraph<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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