Elon Musk might bring back Vine, a predecessor of TikTok shut down by Twitter

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Elon Musk might bring back Vine, a predecessor of TikTok shut down by Twitter
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Twitter bought Vine, an app that let users take 6-second videos that would run on a loop, in 2012. But it shut the video service down before the rise of TikTok.

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Twitter’s new owner and CEO, Elon Musk, is thinking about bringing back Vine, the short-form video app that Twitter bought and revival shows the breadth of product ideas — including old ones — that Musk is toying with in his first week heading up Twitter. A person who works for Twitter said exploratory discussions are happening within the social network about a possible Vine revival, which was first reported by

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