A new app called DiVine, created with support from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, is reviving the spirit of the popular, short-form video platform Vine. It launches with over 100,000 original six-second videos saved from Vine’s archive. In a landscape increasingly filled with AI-created content, DiVine’s creators promise to prevent videos suspected of being AI-generated from being posted.
DiVine is a recreation of the original Vine platform, built from old backups saved before it closed in 2016. Users can explore the restored content, create accounts, and share new short videos similar to Vines. To ensure authenticity, the app confirms that new videos are being recorded by actual people using their smartphones.
The project received funding from Dorsey’s nonprofit, Other Stuff, which began in May 2025 with the goal of backing innovative open-source projects.
App will block AI-generated videos using verification tools
DiVine, as reported by TechCrunch, stops AI-created content from being posted by verifying that videos were truly recorded on a phone – using technology from the Guardian Project. If a video seems fake or doesn’t pass these checks, it won’t be published, ensuring the platform stays focused on authentic recordings.
To recreate the app, Evan Henshaw Plath, one of Twitter’s first employees, had to piece together much of Vine’s old video library. A group known as The Archive Team had previously saved these videos as large digital files – between 40 and 50 gigabytes – but special programs were needed to unlock and reorganize them. This work brought back user accounts, the number of views each video had, and some of the original comments.
DiVine currently features roughly 150,000 to 200,000 videos uploaded by around 60,000 different creators. A lot of specialized or less common content, like millions of K-pop videos, wasn’t saved and isn’t available on the app. Creators can ask for videos to be removed or prove they own their old accounts to get back access and start uploading again.
I couldn’t save everything from Vine, but I managed to recover a significant amount of content and recreate the profiles of many of its users, giving them new accounts on this new platform.
Elon Musk, who owns Twitter (now X), previously announced plans to revive Vine after discovering an archived version of the platform, but a new product hasn’t been released yet. The team behind DiVine, a platform restoring Vine videos, states its content comes from an existing online archive, and video creators still own the rights to their work.
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