Elon Musk confirmed that his team is looking into bringing back Vine, the six-second video app that Twitter acquired in 2012 before it officially launched, and then subsequently shutdown in 2017 because Twitter historically has quit everything too early.
Musk originally floated the idea of bringing back Vine last April in an X poll that received over 2M votes, with almost 70% of users saying “YES” to the idea, but not much has been said about it since.
In the meantime, X shared yesterday that “an immersive new home for videos is rolling out to users in the US” with the launch of a dedicated video tab in the mobile app. The company shared a screen capture video of what that will look like.
Previously, X users had to click on a video and then scroll up or down to see more content. The new video tab exists in the app's bottom bar represented by a play button icon, which cuts out having to choose a starting video.
Guess who also launched a dedicated video tab?
Bluesky! The company said on Sunday that it is launching a custom feed for vertical videos in its app alongside a trending videos section in the Explore tab.
Bluesky also acknowledged developers building TikTok alternatives on AT Protocol, the decentralized protocol that powers Bluesky, such as Tik.Blue, Skylight.Social, and Bluescreen.Blue, which are in early stages of development.