Elon Musk has told engineers to get to work on a Vine reboot
The short-form video app Vine could be revived soon, six years after being shut down, if Elon Musk has his way.
Musk, who completed his $44 billion purchase of Twitter last week, has directed Twitter engineers to work on a Vine relaunch, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to Insider on Monday.which first reported the news, said Musk gave an end-of-year deadline and that one engineer told the publication that Vine's old code base"needs a lot of work."
Neither Twitter nor Musk immediately responded to a request for comment from Insider. Vine co-founder Rus Yusopov declined to comment when contacted by Insider and co-founder Dom Hofmann did not respond ahead of publication. Twitter bought Vine in 2012 but shut it down shortly after in 2016. The app was known for looping six-second videos, pre-dating TikTok in popularizing short-form video content.
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