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Vine creator announces the name of his new app and it bites... er, it's byte!


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If you're one of the many people who miss the looping video app Vine, we have some good news for you.

Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann has just confirmed his plans to bring the popular app back are coming to fruition. On Wednesday, he tweeted out that the new looping video app will simply be called byte (with a lower-case "b").

our new looping video app is called byte. launching spring 2019 pic.twitter.com/C3FMvkcIwc

— dom hofmann (@dhof) November 8, 2018

Hofmann has been teasing a Vine revival under the name 'v2' since November 2017. Earlier this year, however, Hofmann claimed development of 'v2' was indefinitely postponed due to the costs associated with developing the new video app. Read more...

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