Internet’s favorite app Vine is back from the dead, and it’s called Divine

Vine is back, and if you’re already feeling nostalgic, you’re not alone. Divine, a Vine reboot backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, is now available on the App Store and Google Play. The app brings back roughly 500,000 archived Vine videos and lets creators post new six-second looping videos once again. As reported by TechCrunch, Dorsey’s nonprofit, “and Other Stuff,” financed the project. He’s not looking for a return on his investment here. His goal is simpler: to undo the mistake he made when he shut down Vine back in 2017. So, how did they bring Vine back? Early Twitter employee Evan Henshaw-Plath, better known online as “Rabble,” led the effort. He discovered that much of Vine’s original content was backed up by a community archiving project called the Archive Team.

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