Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is seemingly planning to resurrect Vine in a new form eight years after shutting down the popular short-form video hosting. Recent reports suggest that the tech entrepreneur has joined forces with a former acquaintance over a project that aims to bring back Vine under a new name, along with certain mandates against AI-generated content.
Jack Dorsey looking to bring back Vines
Dorsey, the former Twitter head and current Square CEO, has reportedly partnered with a Vine-like service named diVine in a bid to revive the short-form video app. In addition to opening doors for new content users to create six-second-long looping video clips, the app also plans to bring back 10,000 archived videos from Vine.
The former Twitter CEO is funding diVine through his nonprofit ‘andOtherStuff.’ Meanwhile, Evan Henshaw-Plath, who previously worked with Dorsey on the former podcasting platform Odeo, which ultimately gave rise to Twitter, is headlining the said revival of Vine.
Henshaw-Plath, also known as Rabble in the online community, aims to bring back the “pre-AI, web 2.0 days” with his creation. Notably, his goals seem to align with Dorsey’s vision, as diVine will adopt special measures to prevent users from uploading AI content on the platform.
“So basically, I’m like, can we do something that’s kind of nostalgic?” Rabble said, before adding, “Can we do something that takes us back, that lets us see those old things, but also lets us see an era of social media where you could either have control of your algorithms, or you could choose who you follow, and it’s just your feed, and where you know that it’s a real person that recorded the video?” (via Fortune)
With diVine also bringing back an estimated 10,000 Vine clips, users who created the videos in the first place can petition to claim their old profiles, provided that they have access to the social media accounts linked to their now-defunct Vine profiles. The creators will also have the option to request that diVine take down their videos.
Originally reported by Apoorv Rastogi on Mandatory.
