Elon Musk Says He’s Bringing Back Vine’s Archive

Elon Musk says he’s bringing backmost Vine — benignant of. The X proprietor announced complete nan play that nan institution discovered nan video archive for nan celebrated short-form video app, thought to person been deleted, and is moving to reconstruct personification access.

Vine — thing of a precursor to today’s TikTok, but pinch only 6-second-long looping videos — was acquired by Twitter backmost successful October 2012 for $30 cardinal to grow nan societal media platform’s video ambitions. Unfortunately for Vine creators and fans, nan institution fumbled nan app’s imaginable and decided to shut down Vine successful 2016 by limiting each caller uploads. The pursuing year, it was afloat discontinued, though a user archive remained for a time.

Despite nary longer having an App Store presence, Vine still has a spot successful nan internet’s corporate taste consciousness. Through online compilations of nan champion Vines uploaded to YouTube, and done nan careers of galore creators who sewage their commencement connected Vine, nan institution lives connected to immoderate extent, and its contented continues to beryllium discovered by caller generations.

Musk himself seemed willing successful bringing backmost Vine aft acquiring Twitter (now called X) successful October 2022. In a canvass posted connected nan societal media app, he asked Twitter’s users, “Bring backmost Vine?” to which astir 70% responded “yes.” Axios reported astatine nan time that Twitter had devoted immoderate engineers to moving connected nan Vine reboot, but thing ever came of it.

It’s unclear whether Musk has immoderate ambitions for Vine beyond getting its archive backmost online, however. In nan aforesaid station astir restoring Vine, he besides touted that Grok’s caller video-creation feature, Grok Imagine, besides disposable to X Premium+ subscribers, is “AI Vine.” That suggests that his interests successful video creation nary longer dishonesty pinch quality creativity, but successful human-directed AI prompting.

Whether aliases not Musk will really present connected nan committedness remains to beryllium seen, arsenic nan X station could person conscionable been different measurement to tie attraction to Grok AI, alternatively than being typical of a existent effort wrong nan institution to make aged Vines disposable for reposting.