Elon Musk Tells Twitter Engineers to Look at Resurrecting Vine

Elon Musk, the billionaire who not too long ago took Twitter personal with a $44 billion acquisition, has instructed engineers on the social media firm to have a look at resurrecting Vine, the video app bought by Twitter in 2012 and shuttered simply 4 years later, in accordance with a report from Axios.

Musk, who not too long ago modified his Twitter bio to “Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator,” tweeted a ballot on Sunday asking if he ought to convey again Vine, with 70% of individuals responding that he ought to. The ballot garnered over 4.9 million responses.

Vine, if really resurrected, would have an uphill battle towards platforms that provide short-form video content material like TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. And it’s not clear how a lot sense it will make to make use of Vine’s previous code versus ranging from scratch, on condition that it “needs a lot of work,” in accordance with one Twitter worker who spoke with Axios.

Musk has been a demanding boss, in accordance with a number of stories about his quick time on the helm, and there’s even a requirement that Twitter workers work 24/7 to perform numerous concepts from the brand new head of the corporate, in accordance with Business Insider.

One of these concepts is a brand new stab at so-called verification on the platform, the little blue checkmark that verifies that Twitter is aware of how you can Google that individual person, which can value a subscription charge every month. Jason Calacanis, a good friend of Musk’s who been introduced on to work at Twitter, issued a poll asking how a lot customers could be keen to pay for verification. Roughly 81% of 1.9 million respondents mentioned they wouldn’t pay, with smaller numbers answering that they’d pay wherever from $5 to $15.

Musk has dissolved the Twitter board and put in himself as CEO, regardless of working because the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. And there are a number of stories that workers from these two corporations have been introduced in to assist with numerous duties at Twitter. The apparent query, after all, is whether or not the shareholders at a publicly traded firm might be completely happy that employees at Tesla are being pulled off their common assignments to assist with a totally unrelated firm.