Musk Wants To Resurrect Video Snippet Platform Vine

October 31, 2022 Business, Social Media

Elon Musk has instructed Twitter engineers to work on a Vine reboot that could be ready by year end, multiple sources tell Axios. Twitter shuttered the looping-video app in 2016 after acquiring it four years earlier, leaving loyal Vine fans dismayed.

Twitter reportedly tried to sell Vine shortly after. Twitter engineers already have been assigned to look at Vine’s old code base, which hasn’t been changed or updated since the shutdown.

One big difference between TikTok and 2016-era Vine is that the former uses an algorithm to serve up videos, whereas Vine relied on a user’s social follows.

Read the full article. Vine videos were no longer than six seconds.

Bring back Vine?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2022

If you did that and actually competed with tik tok that’d be hilarious

— MrBeast (@MrBeast) October 31, 2022

What could we do to make it better than TikTok?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2022