- Elon Musk surveyed his Twitter followers to determine if he should bring back Vine, a defunct video platform.
- Vine was owned Twitter. It was closed down in 2016 by many of its most prominent stars.
- Musk has completed the deal to purchase Twitter on Friday and is looking for sweeping changes.
Elon Musk surveyed his followers to see if they would like to bring back Vine. This short-form video application was closed in 2016. Change thingsThe company.
On Sunday evening, the richest person in the world tweeted a yes/no poll with the caption “Bring back Vine?”
More than 2,000,000 votes were cast within six hours for the revival of social media.
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2022
Vine was first launched in 2013. It allowed users to upload six-second videos, which looped continuously. Internet stars such as Logan Paul and David Dobrik as well as Shawn Mendes as a singer, were all discovered by Vine. The platform has made it possible to achieve fame.
But, it lost popularity after the death of many. The top-rated creators of the site have since leftThe platform. Many users cited the lack of advertising opportunities and monetization opportunities as reasons for leaving Twitter. Twitter discontinued VineIn 2016, we kept an archive service up to the end of its shutdown three years later.
Jack Dorsey was the original CEO and founder of Twitter. later describedVine’s “greatest regret” is Vine’s closing.
Musical.ly became the most downloaded short-form video app in the world, with a focus on lip-syncing videos. It was then bought by ByteDance in 2017, the parent company of TikTok. TikTok grew to be a worldwide phenomenon with over 2 billion downloads.
Musk was not afraid to answer the question of TikTok’s competition, responding to a TweetYouTuber Mr BeastOver 100 million subscribers have subscribed to,
“What could be done to make it better than TikTok?” Musk asked.
Mr Beast said, “make it difficult to copy or it is a waste of my time,” in reference to Instagram ReelsYoutube Shorts, and other tech companies that have attempted to capture TikTok’s short-form video dominance.
Alex Ernst is another internet celebrity who became famous on Vine, before moving to YouTube and working with David Dobriks. Vlog Squad, Please replyTikTok could be “not spying on us” to top it.
The US military His members were expelledTikTok users are forbidden from posting on it in 2020 due to concerns about the Chinese-owned app being a cyber threat
Donald Trump’s administration almost banned the platform in the same year. It claimed that TikTok spying on its users was a part of his administration.
Insider was informed by expertsWhile the app’s privacy policy is not as intrusive as Facebook’s, concerns persist due to its Chinese ownership.
Insider requested comment but Twitter didn’t immediately respond.
