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Elon Musk Planning Vine Reboot After Twitter Acquisition
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YES. A big yes.
Vine is an important part of our pop culture. It needs to be back like always.
Vine is an important part of our pop culture. It needs to be back like always.
MySpace, AOL Chat Rooms and CompuServe make a roaring comeback in 2023.... ushering in the internet's Roaring Twenties. 🤣
Vine was around only 5 years ago. Why are people acting like it is some ancient thing?
And yet, here we both are using the internet on a rumors site, voting on posts and viewing ads… 😂
As you know, technology is always changing. LinkedIn is already on its way out and there will be another app/site within the next 5-10 years that will revolutionize the way we network across business.
I just like to be ahead of the change in technology.
I actually miss periscope. It was interesting to see different people live streaming all over the world including at protests where the unexpected could happen at anytime.
Some people won’t like shelling out 20 bucks or more a month to Elon mainly to keep the verified mark.
I don't use social media, but I would use Vine over TikTok any day. I don't know why anyone would use an app owned by the Chinese government.
He made the right move. There is really no American (or Western, for that matter) alternative to TikTok right now and TikTok is poised to subvert Western dominance in the content-sharing space. It's also one of the biggest sources of misinformation, thus a threat to our democracy.
Elon Musk is putting money where his mouth is. He should be applauded.
Elon Musk is putting money where his mouth is. He should be applauded.
Yeah that was pretty cool.
The big problem for Periscope, however, was that their whole thing was live-streaming video.
But soon every other platform added live-streaming video... Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, etc... thus making Periscope redundant.
Live-streaming is a feature... not a product. And features like that are relatively easy to implement.
It reminds me of how SnapChat introduced "stories" but nearly every platform now has some sort of stories functionality.
As for Vine... can Twitter successfully reboot the "six-second looping video" concept in 2022? I dunno... there's even more competition today than there was when Twitter shut it down in 2017.
I could not care less. I disavowed Twitter years ago and firmly believe that Musk will use it irresponsibly.
Elon Musk has asked Twitter engineers to begin work on an updated version of Vine that could launch before the end of the year, reports Axios. Musk yesterday tweeted a poll asking if he should "bring back Vine," and 69.5 percent of four million respondents said yes.
Twitter acquired video app Vine back in 2012, which was pre-TikTok and back when Vine was popular. The app slowly stopped being used, and Twitter ended up shutting it down in 2016. Vine was designed to let users capture and share six-second looping video clips.
A rebooted version of Vine could compete with popular video app TikTok. Twitter engineers have been told to examine the Vine code base, which has not been changed since it was shut down. One source told Axios that it "needs a lot of work."
Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter on Friday, instating himself as CEO and firing multiple top executives including prior CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and policy lead Vijaya Gadde, among others. Musk also got rid of the board of directors, and is now Twitter's sole director.
There have been multiple rumors about Musk's plans for Twitter since the takeover, and it has been suggested that he is going to make significant cuts to Twitter's workforce. This morning, rumors indicated that Musk plans to charge $20 per month for a verified account, which has yet to be confirmed.
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Well, he was backing out and Elon had a legit reason. Wanted to back off due to the concern about the bots. It also seems like he took a hefty amount of loan. Not all the cash came from his back account. So now he has no choice left but to generate money for the investors. For months after months, he was messing around, until Twitter slapped him with a lawsuit action.
Sorry for the typo error. I meant to say "fired". Thanks for catching that. You will probably see those exec’s working either at Apple, Facebook, or Google.
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Vine?
Even when it was a thing, I didn't know anyone that wanted to admit they used it. Kind of like when I was paying for Hotmail, but I also got like three accounts and they didn't time out, so for the money, I made out pretty well, but people sure liked to roast people that did.
But Vine? Couldn't he pick something 'newer' to bring back? Doesn't matter I guess because it will all turn to crap sooner or later.
Even when it was a thing, I didn't know anyone that wanted to admit they used it. Kind of like when I was paying for Hotmail, but I also got like three accounts and they didn't time out, so for the money, I made out pretty well, but people sure liked to roast people that did.
But Vine? Couldn't he pick something 'newer' to bring back? Doesn't matter I guess because it will all turn to crap sooner or later.
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Yes sir. $50 yearly membership. If u don’t renew it and let it expire the price will change to $50.00 yearly. Any new membership or expired membership is $50. You are grandfathered into $25.00.Wait it’s $50/year now?! It was half that when I paid for my first year of membership this past summer
You are my kind of macrumors user! I LOVED MIIVERSE!!You're all thinking too small. There's only one social media we need back: Miiverse.
Bully Nintendo to bring it back I miss it.
(This post was so famous, Nintendo referenced it in Splatoon 2)
Will be very interesting to try it out once more! Hopefully it makes a comeback.