Byte App Twitter. Byte recognizes the need to reward its most successful creators by offering a monetization program right from the early days of the platform. However, video is still the heart of Byte. You can either shoot short video clips from within the Byte app, upload videos you take directly on your device or upload clips you have shot and edited elsewhere. What is Byte? The app was created by the same team that gave us “Vine” several years ago where people posted 6-second video clips. That app turned video creators into superstars but Twitter. Byte is a long time coming. To rewind all the way, Hofmann co-founded Vine in June 2012 with Colin Kroll and Rus Yusupov, but it was acquired by Twitter before its launch in January 2013.
Videos can also be downloaded from the app to be shared on other platforms like Twitter or Instagram. Byte, like Vine, was built to loop videos seamlessly in a way that TikTok users sometimes. The six-second video messaging app Vine has officially risen from the ashes under a new name: Byte. And it got off to a rocky start over the weekend.
Byte. Dom Hofman kicked off the short form video craze when he established Vine in 2013, and his long-awaited follow-up to the app, which was closed by Twitter in 2017, looked like it had missed.
The six-second video messaging app Vine has officially risen from the ashes under a new name: Byte. And it got off to a rocky start over the weekend. What is Byte? The app was created by the same team that gave us “Vine” several years ago where people posted 6-second video clips. That app turned video creators into superstars but Twitter. a video app organized around creative communities. History Vine. Byte's predecessor, which is named Vine, was founded in June 2012. It was acquired under the name by Twitter in October 2012. It underwent a staggered update on iOS, Android and Windows Phone throughout much of 2013. It was shut down as a new standalone platform by Twitter in January 2017, disallowing all new videos to be uploaded, but being able to maintain the service within.
