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Jack Dorsey Beats Elon Musk to the Punch With a Reboot of Vine
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Jack Dorsey Beats Elon Musk to the Punch With a Reboot of Vine

Gizmodo·Bruce Gil·about 1 month ago
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When Elon Musk announced that Grok Imagine was the new “ AI Vine ” last year, he also teased the possibility of bringing back Vine’s old video archive in some form. But a Jack Dorsey-funded app just beat him to it. Divine is a new six-second looping video app that also features an archive of 500,000 classic videos from the original Vine platform. The app was announced in beta last year, but officially launched today on the Apple App Store and Google Play. For now, it’s invite-only, though the company says a broader rollout is planned in the coming months. Vine was originally released in 2013 under Twitter, when the company was led by Dorsey, and it became a pioneer in short-form social video, helping pave the way for popular vertical video platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels. It also helped launch the careers of many of today’s biggest internet personalities, including Logan Paul, Lele Pons, and Liza Koshy, before Twitter shut it down in 2017.…

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