Elon Musk would possibly resurrect Vine

Elon Musk is wanting into the Twitter archives for methods to enhance his newly acquired social community. His crew has informed engineers on the firm to have a look at Vine’s code to determine how a lot work it might take to revive it, in keeping with a present worker who spoke to The Verge on the situation of anonymity, as they’re not licensed to publicly talk about the matter.

On Sunday, Musk tweeted a poll asking if he ought to carry again Vine. When Twitter was a public firm, it bought the six-second looping video service in 2012, earlier than its launch in 2013. As of Monday afternoon, “yes” was profitable, with round 69 p.c of over 4 million votes. (I’m sure the Chief Twit could be very happy by that quantity.)

If Vine does come again, it’ll exist in a really totally different world than it did within the early to mid-2010s. For one, TikTok is a factor, and it seems like each different social media firm has copied its mannequin of quick, looping movies. Musk has already started crowdsourcing information on find out how to compete with the platform, although, and Twitter might all the time take a special method; Vine might change into a part of Twitter itself as an alternative of a separate app prefer it was initially, or it might have some distinctive catch that makes it stand out.

But these kinds of particulars are placing the cart manner earlier than the horse. For now, all we all know is that Musk is contemplating it, together with a number of different adjustments at Twitter which will or might not come to move. Still, for these Vine diehards on the market (a bunch that features me), it might be a faint glimmer of hope that we might as soon as once more be doing it for the Vine.