You won’t believe it: Vine, symbol of the 2010s, is back from the dead
The diVine app, launched on November 13, 2025, brings Vine’s archives back to life with more than 150,000 restored videos. © Alexander Supertramp
When Twitter shut down Vine in 2017, no one imagined seeing these little video loops that had shaped an entire generation of creators. Jack Dorsey, who was then CEO, has just announced the financing of a resurrection called diVine.
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Former Twitter employee unearths lost Vine archives
The project, which was mentioned this summeris worn by Evan Henshaw-Plath, known by the pseudonym Rabble, whose ties to Dorsey go back to Odeo, the podcasting app from which Twitter was born as a side project. For several months, he delved into the archives saved by Archive Team, a collective which preserves sites threatened with disappearance. These 40-50 gigabyte binaries contained approximately 150,000-200,000 videos from 60,000 creators.
“We can do something nostalgic, that takes us back, that allows us to revisit these old things, but also a time of social networks where we could control our algorithms, or simply choose who we followed, and where we knew that a real person had recorded the video”explains Henshaw-Plath in the columns of Fortune.
A radical stance against generative AI
The particularity of diVine lies in its categorical rejection of content generated by artificial intelligence. The platform integrates special filters to detect and block any production from generative tools. A positioning that goes against current trends (like Sora 2) funded by Dorsey’s nonprofit “and Other Stuff.”
The app relies on Nostr, a decentralized open source protocol, meant to protect it from the whims of business owners. Elon Musk had nevertheless promised in August to reopen the Vine archivesbut nothing has yet seen the light of day. Former creators can recover their accounts or request removal of their videos. This time, Dorsey promises, history won’t repeat itself.
The app is available now in beta on iOS via TestFlight and Android. The enthusiasm was immediate: 10,000 people registered in just four hours after the launch. However, Apple is blocking the arrival on the official App Store for the moment.
