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diVine Reboots Vine’s Six-Second Video Era With AI-Free Uploads and Jack Dorsey’s Support
The short-form video platform once famous for its six-second looping clips has officially been rebooted. A new app called diVine is bringing back Vine’s iconic format, backed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and designed to keep artificial intelligence out of the feed entirely.
diVine launches with access to more than 100,000 restored videos pulled from the original Vine archive. The recovery effort was led by Evan Henshaw-Plath, an early Twitter employee known as Rabble, who explored a massive backup of Vine videos created by the community preservation group Archive Team after Twitter announced Vine’s shutdown in 2016. The Archive Team is a collective focused on saving digital content at risk of being lost.
The Vine backup came in the form of huge 40–50 GB binary files, which were inaccessible to anyone wanting to revisit classic Vine clips. Henshaw-Plath spent months writing large-scale data scripts to decode and reconstruct the archive. His work restored not only the original videos but also user profiles, view counts, engagement data, and even a subset of Vine’s original comments.
With support from Dorsey’s nonprofit, diVine aims to recapture the authenticity of the early social media era. The app bans AI-generated content altogether and verifies that every upload originates from an actual smartphone. Users can claim their old Vine accounts, upload new videos, or request takedowns of past clips.
The relaunch comes as X owner Elon Musk has also teased a Vine revival, although he has not released a public version.
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