A potential Vine comeback would see it entering a much more crowded market than the one it left six years ago, with TikTok building upon the idea of bite-sized video and attracting hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
Less than a week after completing his contentious $44bn takeover, the self-anointed “Chief Twit” appears open to relaunching the short-form video app axed by his new company back in 2016.
“Bring back Vine?” tweeted Musk in the early hours of Monday, with just over 69% backing its return in a poll of more than two million people.
Musk has put big business decisions to his followers before – last year the world’s richest man asked whether he should sell 10% of stock in his electric car firm Tesla, and abided by the result by selling shares worth $5bn.
When he first bought shares in Twitter in April, he ran a poll asking if people wanted an edit button. The feature has since begun testing, but only for members of the premium Twitter Blue subscription.
A potential Vine comeback would see it entering a much more crowded market than the one it left six years ago, with TikTok building upon the idea and attracting hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
