Elon Musk’s imaginative and prescient for Twitter might embrace bringing again Vine, the short-form video app the corporate . According to , Twitter’s new “Chief Twit” informed a gaggle of engineers to work on a reboot that could possibly be prepared by the tip of the yr. The Verge’s Alex Heath, who was among the many first to report that Musk was contemplating making the corporate’s Twitter Blue subscription , corroborated the information.

“I have also heard this, though unclear if Vine will actually be relaunched at this point,” . “Musk also has a lot of people telling him to just bake the experience into core Twitter.”

While we’re most likely on the stage the place Musk is considering any and all choices, there’s definitely some proof to recommend he’s severely contemplating bringing again Vine. Earlier at the moment, he his 112 million Twitter followers to ask them if the corporate ought to reboot the app. When MrBeast, one of the crucial widespread YouTube stars on the planet, said it might be “hilarious” if Musk did that and Vine went on to compete with TikTok, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO requested him “what could we do to make it better than TikTok?” Bringing again the platform would additionally definitely appear to align with Musk’s acknowledged purpose of reworking Twitter right into a “super app” akin to China’s WeChat.

However, the timeline, just like the one Musk reportedly set for monetizing Twitter’s verification function, is probably going unrealistic. According to Axios, the corporate hasn’t up to date Vine because it shut down the app greater than six years in the past. “It needs a lot of work,” one supply informed the outlet, referring to the software program’s codebase. At this stage, it’s additionally arduous to see the platform competing with TikTok and YouTube Shorts, even when it does come again. So a lot of TikTok’s success is a results of its “For You” algorithm which at all times appears to know what movies will preserve you glued to the app. Vine by no means had something comparable, and plenty of of its most prolific creators have moved on to different platforms.