Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public

A new project to bring back Vine’s six-second looping videos is now available for download on the App Store and Google Play . Divine, as this Vine reboot is called, offers access to an archive of roughly 500,000 Vine videos, restored from a backup of the original service, and allows creators to post new Vines once again. Divine was financed by “and Other Stuff,” a nonprofit formed in May 2025 by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. The non-profit is focused on funding experimental open source projects that have the potential to transform the social media landscape. Dorsey’s backing of Divine doesn’t make him a traditional investor since he’s not looking to get a return here. Rather, his goal is to correct an earlier mistake he made as CEO of Twitter: shutting down Vine in the first place. To create Divine , Evan Henshaw-Plath, an early Twitter employee and member of “and Other Stuff ,” explored the Vine archive. Henshaw-Plath, who goes by “Rabble” online, explained that much of Vine’s content was originally backed up by a community archiving project known as the Archive Team . Image Credits: Divine Those videos had been stored as large, 40-50 GB binary files, which required Rabble to write big data scripts to figure out how the files worked and how to reconstruct them, along with the user engagement, like the views, likes, and comments, that were associated with the original videos. Not all data was able to be restored, but progress has been made. …