Twitter’s streaming service for live videos, Periscope, is shutting down in March. Twitter said Tuesday that declining usage and rising costs made it unsustainable. Instead, many of its features have been built into Twitter. “Leaving it in its current state isn’t doing right by the current and former Periscope community or by Twitter,” the Periscope …
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It was a dark day in 2017 when Twitter announced it was shutting down Vine, the six-second video-looping social app. In less than four years, Vine became a hub for micro-video memes, creating the rise of a generation of young Vine stars with its potential for quick and quirky humor. As users consoled themselves with YouTube compilation videos of their …
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Byte, the 6-second video app meant to fill the Vine-shaped hole in our hearts, reportedly has a bot problem just days after its release. The app was released on Friday for iPhone and Android, but users quickly returned with complaints about multiple bot-generated spam comments being left on their posts, according to a Sunday blog post from co-founder Dom Hoffman. Hoffman, who was …
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Vine, the once-popular, now-defunct video-looping app, may be making a comeback as Byte. Vine co-founder Dom Hoffman’s team sent out 100 invitations to beta test Byte with plans to add more testers soon, the company tweeted Monday. just sent out 100 byte beta invites for our first closed test, which starts tomorrow. will expand to more testers soon — byte (@byte_app) April 22, …
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Vine is back — sort of. Dom Hofmann, co-founder of the six-second video platform, took to Twitter on Thursday to promote the launch of Byte, a “new looping video app” that is expected to debut in the Spring 2019. our new looping video app is called byte. launching spring 2019 pic.twitter.com/C3FMvkcIwc — dom hofmann (@dhof) November 8, 2018 Last year, …
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If you miss the good old days of Vine and its 6-second video clips, we’ve got bad news for you. v2, the expected successor to Vine, has been postponed indefinitely, according to v2 creator and Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann. Vine was incredibly popular in its heyday as the go-to place to upload and watch short and funny videos. Twitter bought …
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On January 17 Twitter will stop letting users upload videos to Vine, and will revamp the app. Vine Camera will takes its place, allowing you to still create Vine videos, but only for sharing outside of Vine. ‘Cause Vine won’t exist anymore. Before the transition, you should back up your Vines. Vine has posted a help page detailing the process …
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Yep, you still will be able to make and watch six-second Vine videos. Over and over and over. Vine, Twitter’s video app, was left for dead two months ago. But on Friday, the social network said in a blog post that the app will be renamed “Vine Camera.” Users will be able to post the looping videos they make to …
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Now playing: Watch this: How to use the Hype app and win all the sparkles 2:19 The creators of Vine have a new gift for the Internet — and it’s called Hype. Hype is a live-streaming video app on iOS with wide-ranging creative freedom. Every broadcaster can layer a live video with multimedia, including photos, videos, animated GIFs, music, text …
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Twitter is shutting down Vine, the micro-video app famous for 6-second clips that the microblogging platform acquired (and launched) in 2012. The company will be discontinuing the mobile app in the coming months — which likely means that it will no longer be available on the App Store or Google Play — but the app, website and any Vines you’ve …
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