Byte, the spiritual successor to Vine, has a new owner
Clash is another Vine-a-like, founded by a former Vine star.
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TikTok is starting a $200 million fund for its top creators
Famous TikTok users can apply to get paid.
Byte's first batch of creator partners will split $250,000
Its Partner Program will kick off on April 15th.
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Vine successor Byte vows to fix its spam problem
Creators are treating it like a gold rush by trying to gather followers.
Vine co-founder launches a new 6-second video app: Byte
The original short-video king is back.
Facebook hires former Vine head for its New Product Experimentation Team
Jason Toff will help build Facebook’s ‘entirely new experiences.’
Vine successor Byte is now in closed beta
Only 100 users have access now, but that's set to expand soon.
HQ Trivia and Vine co-founder Colin Kroll dies of apparent overdose
The controversial executive was just 34.
Facebook’s internal documents show its ruthlessness
Zuckerberg: "That [app] may be good for the world but it’s not good for us unless people also share back to Facebook..."
Facebook gave Lyft and others special access to user data
It also denied access to competitors like Vine.
Vine will be revived as Byte next spring
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann tweeted the news today.
Vine's rapturous return has been delayed indefinitely
Vine 2.0 needs outside funding and its own company to launch properly.
Twitter may have forgotten to purge Kremlin Vine accounts
Twitter accounts tied to Russia were purged, but the corresponding Vine videos were untouched.
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann teases Vine 2.0
He's self-funding it as a side project.
HQ's live trivia is coming to Android in time for the holidays
Its game shows (and real money prizes) won't be iPhone-only anymore.
The creators of Vine built a trivia show app called HQ
It airs live twice a day.
The Vine Archive will keep the videos looping forever
Or until Twitter pulls the plug, anyway.
Vine as we know it shuts down on January 17th
So long, and thanks for all the loops.
