Elon Musk ‘looking into’ return of Vine following TikTok ban

Road work ahead? Uh, yeah, I sure hope it does.’

Many will recognise the quote above from one of many iconic Vine videos which took the internet by storm.

Vine allowed people to share six-second video clips, and the quickfire humour it created resulted in ideal conditions for fast-growing internet fame.

Fans have been hoping the app would one day return since it went offline in 2017.

YouTube, TikTok and other social media apps are awash with clips and compilations of popular Vines, harking back to simpler times where creators had to set up a joke and deliver the punchline in just six seconds.

Vine could be making a comeback, eight years after it was closed down (Picture: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Musk bought up X, formerly Twitter, back in 2022, making him a major player in the social media world. Vine was owned by Twitter at the time it was closed down.

So in the wake of TikTok – considered by many as a successor to Vine – being shut down in the US, questions about the future of video sharing on social media have been raised.

The app lost a last-ditch legal bid on Friday to have a ban declared unconstitutional on free speech grounds, with the US Supreme Court unanimously rejecting TikTok’s appeal.

Last April, Joe Biden signed a law which gave TikTok a deadline of January 19 to separate its US business from parent firm ByteDance, a China-based company whose control of TikTok is seen as a national security threat by the American government.

US President-elect Donald Trump has told NBC News he will ‘most likely’ give TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal after he is sworn into office on Monday.

Musk has now indicated he and his team are ‘looking into’ getting Vine back up and running.