Jack Dorsey invests in diVine — a new app resurrecting Vine’s archive

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has invested in diVine, a new platform built around archival Vine clips and support for posting new short videos, TechCrunch reports.

On November 13, 2025, diVine opened access to 150,000–200,000 restored Vine videos from roughly 60,000 creators. Email sign-up is not yet available, only users of the decentralized Nostr protocol can log in, though the video feed can be viewed without an account.

The app explicitly bans AI-generated content. Moderation relies on tools developed by the nonprofit Guardian project, which determine whether a clip was recorded on a smartphone camera.

The project is led by former Twitter employee Evan Henshaw-Plath. To resurrect the archive, he used a community-maintained Vine backup and spent months writing scripts to extract and reconstruct the data. The size of Dorsey’s investment has not been disclosed.

diVine restores many of Vine’s original engagement features: views, likes, reposts, and even some legacy comments. Creators can request removal of their videos via copyright complaints or claim verification by proving ownership of their former Vine accounts.

Vine, famous for its six-second looping videos, launched in 2013 and shut down in 2016 amid financial struggles. Elon Musk previously promised to revive the service and claimed to have found an old archive, but no product ever materialized.

The new diVine app is now available for download on both iPhone and Android.