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.”
The Verge and Platformer are both reporting that Twitter is also set to introduce a new tier to Twitter Blue, the social media platform’s subscription service, that costs $20 per month and includes verification on the platform.
Currently, applying for verification on Twitter is free, and users only need to show account notability, be of public interest, and be authentic.