Byte, the long promised successor to Vine, has already eclipsed its predecessor by one key metric.
In its first week on the App Store and Google Play, the app was downloaded more than 1.3 million times, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower. That’s nearly twice as many downloads as Vine received in its first week on the App Store.
Sensor Tower further notes that the vast majority of Byte’s downloads have so far come from the United States, which accounts for 70 percent of its first-week installs.
Byte, which is backed by Vine cofounder Dom Hofmann, was released exactly seven years to the day Vine was initially launched. Of course, much has changed since Vine first introduced the looping video concept that launched a thousand memes and propelled some of the internet’s earliest influencers to stardom. Read more…
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