The OG TikTok might have its second day in the sun.
In 2013, a new social media app briefly exploded in popularity, like a comet across the sky, and then disappeared as quickly as it came.
The app was Vine, which allowed you to create six-second videos, not unlike TikTok. It faded into obscurity in 2016, but not before it launched the careers of people like Nash Grier and Lele Pons. Now, Elon Musk, who, as Twitter’s new owner, recently changed his Twitter bio to “Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator,” would like to resurrect Vine. In an era of TikTok supremacy, can the decade-old app compete? It’s unclear, but the mogul is currently expanding his tech aspirations, and is willing to give it a shot., Musk’s Twitter minions are working on a reboot of the platform “that could be ready by year end,” in what could be the Christmas gift literally nobody asked for.
, "If you did that and actually competed with tik tok that’d be hilarious," to which Musk responded, "What could we do to make it better than TikTok?"which seems to have a better grasp on the psychological underpinnings of my lifeBut Vine wasn’t algorithm-based, instead relying on a user’s follows.
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