Twitter sorry for adult video gaffe

Twitter has had to apologise after pornographic footage was promoted as an “editor’s pick” on its new Vine video app.

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.