Twitter's iPhone video-snippet sharing service Vine had concerns about
porn exposed on Monday after adult content was bared briefly in an
"Editor's Picks" section.
Twitter apologized for the mistake, blaming "human error" but providing little detail, and quickly removed the video.
The
globally popular one-to-many message sharing service last week launched
Vine, a service that lets people share video snippets from iPhones or
iPod touch devices.
Perpetually looping video clips up to six
seconds each can be shared using Vine or easily embedded in "tweets"
fired off at Twitter.
A free Vine application became available
worldwide at Apple's App Store on Thursday. Reports soon surfaced of
salacious snippets being found at Vine by people searching for such
content.
Eyes were on Apple, which has a history of booting from
the App Store mini-programs that serve up adult content on its popular
mobile gadgets.
Twitter bought Vine, a startup based in New York,
in October, prompting talk the messaging service intended to do for
smartphone video what Instagram did for pictures.
Twitter in
December added Instagram-style smartphone photo sharing features after
the Facebook-owned service made it impossible for Internet users to
integrate its images into tweets.
Previously, Instagram pictures shared in messages tweeted from smartphones could be viewed unaltered at Twitter.
Facebook
promptly blocked Vine users from being able to find friends at the
world's leading social network, "clarifying" its platform policy in
response to inquiries about the move.
Platform operations director
Justin Osofsky said in a blog post that apps aren't allowed to use the
friend-finding feature if they "replicate our functionality or bootstrap
their growth in a way that creates little value for people on
Facebook."
Osofsky did not directly refer to Vine or how the rule was applied to the service.