It’s worth noting that Elon Musk praised TikTok in one of his recent interviews, saying that its algorithms aren’t “boring.” According to him, it is possible to “sharpen Twitter in the same way that is interesting”. Presumably, the new owner of the social network wants to increase engagement, gaining the coveted billion users.

what is known

Traditionally, Musk is interested in the opinions of his followers on Twitter and asks them if the Vine service should be restored.

As the survey results suggest, the majority supported the initiative, but this question is more of a formality because, after all, Musk has already made a decision. According to one of the company’s current employees who spoke to The Verge, engineers were asked to find out how much work would be needed to revive Vine’s code. Also, according to the Axios post, the reboot could be ready by the end of the year.

According to the source, these are very aggressive terms, given that the Vine code is already over a decade old. But Musk doesn’t seem to care, and setting such short deadlines for him is not novelty. He gave his developers an ultimatum the other day: They either apply paid verification by November 7th or they will be fired.

What is vine?

• Vine is a video service that offers six-second looping videos.
• Twitter bought the startup before it went live in 2013.
• Vine quickly gained popularity. On April 9, 2013, Vine became the most downloaded free iOS app in the App Store.
• The service was not integrated with Twitter, but users were allowed to be added from there as well.
• And although at one point the number of users reached 200 million, later Vine could not stand the competition from Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube and lost some of its viewers.
• On October 27, 2016, it was announced that the service would be shut down.

The exact dates of the possible launch are unknown. Vine’s code may become obsolete today, and the company may have to rewrite the code from scratch or abandon those plans altogether. It’s also unclear whether Musk wants to keep the service as a separate app or integrate it with Twitter, as Instagram has done with Reels.