Elon Musk asks his engineers to dig up 'Old Vine' from Twitter archives
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Mumbai: Elon Musk is looking for ways to improve his newly bought social network—and he has found a way, according to The Verge.
Days after acquiring Twitter, Musk is charting out future course of action to make the network a formidable force.
Being Musk nothing seems to be impossible for the world's richest man whose ways are not predictable.
Twitters engineers have been asked by Musk to work on Vine code to bring back Vine, the erstwhile social network.
The short video platform that allowed users to post six-second long videos was popular in 2013.
One of the first video platforms that allowed viewers to watch short videos in a loop inspired subsequent giants like Tik Tik and Intagram's Reels.
Perhaps you must remember Vine emerging as a major platform soon after it was created by Dom Hoffman, Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll in 2012.
Over a year later it came into being, the network amassed as much as 200 million users.
Emergence of Facebook as a formidable force undermined Vine's success, according to reports.
The platform began to die after Facebook reportedly restricted access to its Friends API for Vine.
This disconnect throw the platform off the balance, making its users unable any longer to find others friends on there.
Most recently on October 31, 2022, Musk asked his followers on Twitter if they wanted Vine back.
There have been reportedly an overwhelming support to this call with 69.6 polled in favour of Vine's return.
Inasmuch as the report in The Verge suggests, Twitter engineers must be working now on the oldie, and it will be back in action by the end of the year.
With Musk's entry to social media, more wonders than we have known in tech-world are in store for us.
