After Twitter Takeover, Elon Musk Now Wants To Bring Back Vine

Is Vine about to make a comeback? The short-form video service allowed users to post six-second-long video clips and was acquired by Twitter before its launch in 2013.

Slowly, creators started to leave Vine for alternatives like Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat, forcing Twitter to discontinue the app.

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Musk's plans for Vine revival

Now that Twitter is owned by SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk, Vine might just make a comeback. But we wouldn't get our hopes up just yet. Elon Musk held a poll on Twitter on October 31, asking users if they'd want Vine back. It received 4.9 million votes, with 69.6% people voting yes and 30.4% voting no.

Bring back Vine?

¡ª Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2022

According to Axios, Musk has now asked Twitter engineers to bring back Vine. Sources believe that the app could be revived before the end of this year.

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Musk has already asked engineers to assess the code, which has remained untouched service the service shut down in 2016. According to one source quoted by Apple Insider, "it needs a lot of work."

Also read: Musk Fires Twitter¡¯s Board Of Directors, Becomes Platform¡¯s Sole Director

A former Vine employee, Sara Beykpour, Tweeted that the codebase for Vine is about six years old and some elements are a decade old. This means that engineers at the helm of Vine's reboot will need to work extra hard to compete with today's services like TikTok.

some free advice, from someone who worked at Vine and also led the shutdown of Vine.

This code is 6+ years old. Some of it is 10+. You don't want to look there. If you want to revive Vine, you should start over.

trust me on this one guys ??? https://t.co/knM0mKM3Xf

¡ª sara beykpour (@pandemona) October 31, 2022

YouTuber Mr. Beast Tweeted that it would be "hilarious" if Musk actually brought back Vine. To this, Musk Tweeted back - "What could be we do to make it better than TikTok?"

What could we do to make it better than TikTok?

¡ª Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2022

Also read: Elon Musk Is Now 'Chief Twit' Of Twitter: What Happens To Your Personal Data?

While Twitter may have given up on Vine too soon, Elon Musk could bring it back. At the same time, it will not be easy given the market competition.

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Besides bringing back Vine, Musk is orchestrating a series of changes of Twitter. For starters, he wants to bring verification badges in the ambit of Twitter's monthly paid service, Twitter Blue, and raise the prices to $19.99 per month.

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References

Owen, M. (2022, October 31). Musk tells Twitter engineers to bring Vine back from the dead. AppleInsider. https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/10/31/musk-tells-twitter-engineers-to-bring-vine-back-from-the-dead

Fischer, S., & Primack, D. (2022, October 31). Scoop: Musk team working to reboot Vine this year. Axios. https://www.axios.com/2022/10/31/vine-tiktok-twitter-musk-team-reboot