Elon Musk ‘looking into’ return of Vine following TikTok ban

‘Road work ahead? Uh, yeah, I definite anticipation it does.’

Many volition recognise the punctuation supra from 1 of galore iconic Vine videos which took the net by storm.

Vine allowed radical to stock six-second video clips, and the quickfire humour it created resulted successful perfect conditions for fast-growing net fame.

Fans person been hoping the app would 1 time instrumentality since it went offline successful 2017.

YouTube, TikTok and different societal media apps are awash with clips and compilations of fashionable Vines, harking backmost to simpler times wherever creators had to acceptable up a gag and present the punchline successful conscionable six seconds.

And that privation could good beryllium granted, acknowledgment to Elon Musk.

Musk bought up X, formerly Twitter, backmost successful 2022, making him a large subordinate successful the societal media world. Vine was owned by Twitter astatine the clip it was closed down.

So successful the aftermath of TikTok – considered by galore arsenic a successor to Vine – being shut down successful the US, questions astir the aboriginal of video sharing connected societal media person been raised.

The app mislaid a last-ditch ineligible bid connected Friday to person a prohibition declared unconstitutional connected escaped code grounds, with the US Supreme Court unanimously rejecting TikTok’s appeal.

Last April, Joe Biden signed a instrumentality which gave TikTok a deadline of January 19 to abstracted its US concern from genitor steadfast ByteDance, a China-based institution whose power of TikTok is seen arsenic a nationalist information menace by the American government.

US President-elect Donald Trump has told NBC News helium volition ‘most likely’ give TikTok 90 much days to enactment retired a woody aft helium is sworn into bureau connected Monday.

Musk has present indicated helium and his squad are ‘looking into’ getting Vine backmost up and running.

There aren’t galore details yet, arsenic each we person to spell connected is simply a azygous X station from Musk responding to calls to bring Vine back.

But arsenic we’ve seen Xiaohongshu, TikTok’s latest rival, sprout up the App store charts, it seems wide that there’s a vacuum caused by TikTok’s closure waiting to beryllium filled.

UK fans of TikTok don’t request to commencement calling for the instrumentality of Vine conscionable yet, though.

Chief caput to the treasury, Darren Jones, told the BBC this greeting that determination are ‘no plans close present to prohibition TikTok’ successful the UK, adding that cats and dancing videos don’t ‘seem similar a nationalist information threat’.

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