Divine, the reboot of Vine, is available for download and ships with roughly 500,000 restored clips. The app is live on the App Store and Google Play and lets creators post new six-second looping videos. The project was financed by "and Other Stuff," a nonprofit Jack Dorsey formed in May 2025, and aims to undo the decision to shut Vine down. This release returns a large slice of the original service and invites former creators back onto a modern platform.

What launched today

Divine opened to the public on Wednesday as a mobile app for iOS and Android. Users can browse an archive of approximately 500,000 short looping videos recovered from the old Vine service. The app also lets creators upload fresh six-second loops in the same format fans remember.

The restored archive covers clips from nearly 100,000 original Vine creators. User profiles are accessible on the web even if someone doesn't install the mobile app. The restoration effort started with a test release in November 2025 that included about 100,000 of Vine's most-watched clips. The library then expanded to roughly 300,000 clips prior to today.

How the archive was rebuilt

Evan Henshaw-Plath, an early Twitter employee who uses the handle Rabble, led the technical work to reconstruct the Vine files. He explored an archive backup of the original service. Many of those files came from a community archiving effort known as the Archive Team.

Rabble said the raw files were large binaries. Each file measured roughly 40 to 50 gigabytes. The size meant they couldn't be examined with simple tools. He wrote big-data scripts to decode the blobs and reassemble the clips.

The process also re-linked engagement data like views, likes, and comments to videos when possible.

Not every piece of data survived. Rabble said some engagement and metadata couldn't be fully restored. Still, the team managed to recover hundreds of thousands of clips and the most widely shared creator profiles.

Who paid for it and why

Funding came from "and Other Stuff," a nonprofit set up by Jack Dorsey in May 2025. The group backs experimental open source projects aimed at changing social media. Dorsey is a co-founder of Twitter and his support for Divine is philanthropic, not a conventional investment.

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Project backers framed the effort as correction. Dorsey has said that shutting Vine was a mistake when he led Twitter. Divine's backers describe their aim as restoring a cultural archive and giving creators a way to publish in the six-second format again.

Creator response and platform features

Several early Vine creators have signed in and engaged with Divine. The roster includes Lele Pons, JimmyHere, MightyDuck, and the duo Jack and Jack. Their presence gives the launch an anchor of recognizable profiles from Vine's original era.

Divine presents the recovered clips in a modern mobile interface. It preserves the original looped playback and allows new uploads that use the same short-run format. Profiles and historical clips are visible on the web. That means people can view the archive without installing the app.

The team initially planned for a faster rollout. Rabble said early Viners urged the team to hold back and refine the product. The extra time grew the archive and helped smooth reconstruction of engagement links and user pages.

The reconstruction relied on publicly available backups and community archives. Rabble credited the Archive Team for much of the raw material. Even with those resources, some data couldn't be reattached to its original context.

Divine doesn't claim to have fully restored every metric or every comment. The team documented gaps in the archive and prioritized restoring clips and profiles that were most shared. That approach preserved the cultural highlights while acknowledging technical limits.

Divine revives Vine's six-second loop. It doesn't attempt to recreate Twitter's ecosystem or its moderation systems. The project emphasizes open source and archival values rather than building a large ad-driven social network.

Backers framed the reboot as an experiment in short-form creative expression. The nonprofit model means there's no traditional investor pressure for returns. The focus is on making archived content accessible again and on enabling creators to post new loops in a familiar format.

The app is now public, so adoption will show how much demand remains for this form of short looping video. Divine's early stunt was technical: rebuild a fragmented archive and reconnect creators with their work. The project must now prove it can attract new uploads and sustain active users.

Divine's team will likely continue improving the reconstruction process. They've already expanded the archive in stages. The app moved from a 100,000-clip test pool in November 2025 to 300,000 clips shortly before launch. Today's public library sits at about 500,000 clips.

Former Vine creators gain an option to reclaim and re-present their early work. Fans get access to a sizable slice of the platform's cultural output. Researchers and archivists see a large public collection restored from community backups. Companies that build on short-form video may watch to see whether revived nostalgia drives renewed usage.

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After a November 2025 test pool of about 100,000 clips and a staged expansion to 300,000, Divine's public library now sits at roughly 500,000 clips from nearly 100,000 creators, and the app is available on the App Store and Google Play.

This article was created with AI assistance.