Will Elon Musk revive Vine? Chief Tweet asks for the return of the six-second video platform
Will Elon Musk revive Vine? Chef Tweet is asking users if he should bring back the six-second video platform that Twitter bought in 2013, which has created stars like YouTuber Logan Paul and musician Shawn Mendes.
- Elon Musk conducted a poll on Twitter asking users if they would like Vine to return.
- Vine, launched in 2012, allows users to share videos up to six seconds long.
- Twitter bought Vine shortly after it launched, but killed it off in 2017
- Vine is known for creating many stars, including YouTuber Logan Paul and musician Shawn Mendes.
Elon Muskwho is the new owner Twitteris conducting a survey on the platform to see if users are interested in returning from the dead Vine, a platform known for creating stars such as Logan Paul and Shawn Mendes.
Vine, which allowed users to share six-second videos, became a sensation in 2012 and was bought by Twitter just five months after its release, but the social media platform killed it five years later due to increasing competition in the market.
The user suggested that the revival of Vine could make him tik tak competitor and “that would be fun,” to which the Twit chief replied, “What can we do to make it better than TikTok?”
More than three million people voted in the poll, with over 69 percent of the vote saying yes, but it’s not clear if Musk has any real plans to bring it back or if he’s just making jokes on Twitter.
Elon Musk is running a poll on Twitter where users are asked if they want Vine to return, with more users voting yes.
Musk officially closed his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter last Thursday after fighting social media executives for months over concerns that most accounts are actually spambots.
He has since cleaned up the house, firing executives such as CEO Parag Agrawal and is expected to lay off “25 percent of the staff.”
While most of the news has been focused on such events, Musk hopes to steer it towards the development of Twitter as a platform and hopes to get input from those who use the platform.
One user sees Vine as a potential competitor to TikTok, prompting Musk to ask what can be done to make Vine better.
A lot of people don’t like TikTok and hope that the Chinese platform will finally disappear.
While many users are excited about the idea of Vine’s resurrection, others think it should stay where it is – dead.
A Twitter user, Tesla Owners Silicon Valley, suggested that Vine not be a separate application, but live on Twitter.
Musk responded with a “100 percent” emoji.
While many users are excited about the idea of Vine’s resurrection, others think it should stay where it is – dead.
Twitter user zo. shared, “We love the vine so much just because of the nostalgia… like, let’s put it in the past and just enjoy what we have. we can love came from afar, I’m afraid!
However, many people do not like TikTok and hope that the Chinese platform will finally disappear.
Quinn Nelson tweeted: “The return of Vine is Musk’s first good idea on Twitter and it’s a very good idea. I want TikTok to die.”
Vine was the first of its kind to allow people to create short videos to share with the world.
Vine has spawned several notable personalities such as Logan Paul (left) and Shawn Mendes (right).
An image of Musk with Rus Yusuppov, the co-founder of Vine, was posted in April 2022, 11 days after Musk made an offer to buy Twitter.
The app has also given birth to several famous personalities, including Shawn Mendes, a world-famous musician, and Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor, who was one of the most popular creators on Vine and is now an actor in The Mindy Project.
Then there’s Logan Paul, who started making comedy videos for Vine and then switched to YouTube when the app was shut down.
However, he became a controversial figure when he registered the corpse of a man who committed suicide in Japan’s famous “suicide forest”.
Paul is now a professional wrestler signed to WWE and has over 23 million YouTube subscribers.
Mendez is known for several hits, including “Stitches” and “Señorita”.
An image of Musk with Rus Yusuppov, co-founder of Vine, was posted by Yusuppov in April 2022 with the caption: “Hey @elonmusk, was that a Vine bailout meeting? I forgot….’
Musk offered to buy Twitter on April 14, and a photo of him with Yusuppov was released just 11 days later, suggesting that Musk had been planning to take back Vine since the $44 billion deal.
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