Twitter has embarked on a clean-up programme after micro-porn began appearing on its new six-second video sharing application Vine.
HumanIPO reported yesterday that the 140-character blogging site had launched its innovative video platform, but since then opportunists have taken advantage by posting pornographic material.
User @NSFWVine was blocked this morning, but only after uploading 30 explicit videos to 500 followers. Ironically one of their posts was chosen as an ‘Editor’s Pick’ and placed on Twitter’s homepage, reported the Guardian.
The person responsible said: “Twitter/Vine should really take steps to make it possible to filter out and block such content, so it can be out of reach for children, but I believe there are a lot of adults who would like the opportunity to share and view such content, and I bet they have gotten a lot of app downloads because of the media attention regarding porn on there.
“Maybe a safe search filter or something could be a possibility. Like Google have, which works well in my opinion.”
The social network has also blogged searches which include the tags #porn, #nsfw and #boobs.
