A new social media platform called Divine, designed to resurrect the six-second looping video format made famous by Vine, has officially launched to the public. The app is now available for download on both the App Store and Google Play.
According to TechCrunch, the project is funded by "and Other Stuff," a nonprofit established in May 2025 by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. The nonprofit focuses on financing experimental open-source projects intended to reshape the social media landscape.
Dorsey’s involvement is not a traditional venture capital investment. Instead, the outlet reports that Dorsey aims to rectify a past error made during his tenure as Twitter CEO: the decision to absolutely shut down Vine.
Reconstructing the Vine archive
The app features a restored archive of approximately 500,000 Vine videos. These clips were recovered from backups maintained by the Archive Team, a community-led preservation project.
Evan Henshaw-Plath, a former Twitter employee known online as "Rabble," led the technical effort to rebuild the library. He told TechCrunch that the process involved processing massive 40-50 GB binary files.
Henshaw-Plath had to develop big data scripts to decode these files and reconstruct associated user engagement metrics, such as likes, views, and comments. While the restoration process was not perfect, the archive has grown significantly over recent months.
The app's content library expanded from 100,000 top videos during its November testing phase to 300,000 videos just prior to the public launch. Today, the platform hosts roughly 500,000 videos from nearly 100,000 original Vine creators.
Early Vine era creators, including Lele Pons, JimmyHere, MightyDuck, and Jack and Jack, have already expressed interest or joined the platform.
