Twitter is taking action against hardcore pornography on its new video
app, Vine, banning searches for explicit content. Photograph: Dominic
Lipinski/PA
Twitter is taking action against hardcore pornography
on its new six-second video app, Vine, banning searches for explicit content
and deleting X-rated users.
The social network made efforts to clean up
the porn-hit video app after apologising for a "human error" that showed a graphic sex clip
on its homepage on Monday.
NSFWVine, the user behind the pornographic
video, appeared to have been blocked from Vine on Tuesday morning – but not
before they had uploaded more than 30 explicit videos to 500 followers.
However, the person behind the account denied that it had been blocked.
An individual who responded when the Guardian
messaged the NSFWVine Twitter account said they were not "really
expecting" Vine to select the clip as an editor's pick on the homepage.
NSFWVine launched two websites asking users
to submit pornographic videos to Vine less than 72 hours after Twitter launched
the app, internet registration records show. "The plan is to have
others submit their NSFW vine clips, so the site is a collection of NSFW vine
clips. $ will be from ads," the person behind the account told the
Guardian.
They claimed Twitter had not been in contact
about the explicit material despite making a public apology over it.
The San Francisco-based company moved to
block searches for tags including "#porn", "nsfw" and
"boobs" in a further effort to rid Vine of its porn problem. The app
is still available for free for Apple iPhones and iPods, although it was
quietly removed from the app store's editor's picks section late on Monday.
Vine's launch last week inspired several
spin-off sites that display an unmoderated stream of the rolling videos,
including Vinepeek, launched
by the London-based startup PXi Ventures.
The director of Pxi Ventures, Peter
MacRobert, said he was "disappointed" that porn had started appearing
on Vine, but added that he was a fan of the service.
He told the Guardian: "Vinepeek simply
re-broadcasts a feed from Vine, and at the moment the original content is not
tagged in any way to indicate that it may contain adult themes.
"Ideally, we would like to work with
Vine to get an indication of a clip's suitability (for example, a meta tag) –
allowing our viewers to make a choice before viewing the content."
Twitter had not responded to a request for comment at the
time of publication. [GuardianUK]
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