Elon Musk says he is restoring the Vine archive

Elon Musk says he is restoring Vine – something like. Owner X. announced At the weekend, the company discovered the video archive of the popular video application with short forms, considered to be removed and is working on restoring user access.

Vine-to the precursor of today's Tiktok, but with only six seconds looped movies-stood taken over by Twitter in October 2012 for $ 30 million to expand the video ambition of the social media platform. Unfortunately for the creators and fans of Vine, the company mastered the application potential and decided to close Vine in 2016, limiting all new transmission. The following year, he was fully interrupted, although the user archive remained for some time.

Despite the fact that there is no longer the presence in the App Store, Vine is still taking place in the collective cultural awareness of the Internet. Through the online compilations of the best vines sent to YouTube and through the career of many creators who started on Vine, the company lives to some extent, and its content is still discovered by new generations.

Musk himself seemed interested in restoring Vine after the purchase of Twitter in October 2022. Published survey In the social media application he asked Twitter users: “Provide Vine?” to which almost 70% replied “yes”. Axios reported at that time This Twitter devoted some work engineers to restarting the vine, but nothing came of it.

It is not clear, however, whether the musk has any ambitions for Vine except regaining the online archive. In the same post on restoration, Vine also advertised that the new GROK video creation feature, grok Imagine, also available to X Premium+subscribers, is “Ai Vine”. This suggests that his interest in creating video is no longer in human creativity, but in AI directed by man.

Whether Musk actually fulfills the promise to see you, because X Post could simply be another way to pay attention to AI Grok, instead of being representative for real effort in the company, to provide old vines for reposting.