Twitter sorry for adult video gaffe
The six-second video with “adult content”, which widely circulated pictures showed appearing under a warning screen, was promoted less than a week after the service launched.
Twitter blamed human error and said the video has been removed. A spokesman said: “A human error resulted in a video with adult content becoming one of the videos in Editor’s Picks, and upon realising this mistake we removed the video immediately.
“We apologise to our users for the error.”
Photographs circulated on the social network showed a video posted by a user called NSFWVine — a reference to the “not safe for work” warning used when posting risqué content online.
With “editor’s pick” in the corner, the cover screen said: “Warning. This post may contain sensitive content. Tap to view.”
Vine, which was launched last Thursday, is an app that lets users of the social network post short films from their mobile phones.
Dom Hofmann, the co-founder of Vine, tweeted a video last week showing him making steak tartar in footage that resembled .gif animated footage.
Twitter rules state: “Users can report videos as inappropriate within the product if they believe the content to be sensitive or inappropriate [e.g. nudity, violence, or medical procedures].
“Videos that have been reported as inappropriate have a warning message that a viewer must click through before viewing the video.
“Uploaded videos that are reported and determined to violate our guidelines will be removed from the site, and the user account that posted the video may be terminated.”
