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Does Twitter's Vine have a porn problem?
Maybe it was a foregone conclusion that the Internet demonstrates the ability to be open to new technologies in a single platform is naked people.
The new Twitter app, video sharing vines are under scrutiny after the early adopters began to use it, and about the sixth flashes Welcome to the user community for a total of app and Twitter.
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It is a problem that Twitter scrambling to put my concerns. And the question is how well Apple's smartphone users can download the app to lift does not respond to my other applications that provide access to sexual content.
The problem has been the focus of Monday on the Vine noticed video of what was described as packed with hard-core pornography on the options that are unique to the mobile app.
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Users took to the comments section of the video to Twitter to apologize on Monday, saying it was a mistake.
Mother touching Vine children the content.
"The slope of the resulting adult video content into one of the editors of the video and the video we realized the mistake immediately," the company said in a statement to CNN. "We want to apologize to our users for our mistake.".
Thursday the vine is a native Twitter app to create and share video takes the user makes 6 seconds. And a photo-sharing app Instagram users can follow other the Vine, who have a video post in a feed on their phones or on Twitter and Facebook app that is to be shared only on the iPhone. , IPad and iPod.
Apple's status as the ash banned from the interesting question just last week Apple App 500px images together from the App Store because they allow people to access to sexual content, applications 500px. are among the many beautiful nude photos to other applications, but the other is user-generated content such as Tumblr that. still in Apple's iOS for mobile phone access
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Vine and rated 12 + on iTunes for "rare sexual content / nudity, mild, or" any other reason it deems appropriate definition for 12 or more users on Monday that it uses five. The most popular free app in the App Store.
Apple did not immediately respond to messages seeks comment on this story. Vine has been listed on Apple's own Editor's Choice as early as Monday morning. It seems at midday were removed on Monday.
Apple observers were noted on Monday that the company has found itself with a reputation held by Apple in check what. In the App Store and the mobile operating systems in general Late CEO Steve Jobs is well known, argues that the control of the end user experience seamless, free porn, spam, and other digital.
But as the Web develops, it grows and digital becomes difficult to separate the blurred boundary between applications, to promote adult content. (And to use or not use of Apple, as a matter of course). And just to have access to such tariff.
For example, what is the difference between illicit and App 500px app for Tumblr, a blogging platform that contains many of the millions of blogs hosted explicit sexual content?
"From the beginning, Apple has said that they want to get the app store and see what they do not want to wait. But they grow and learn," Rene Ritchie, editor of the Apple-centric blog iMORE said. Posted on Monday. "This particular issue has been around for years. But society has frequently come to the surface again."
It is interesting that it is a bit less than a year ago that Apple Viddy, video sharing app was banned in comparison to the Vine, because it gives access to user-generated adult video app Viddy also. Back in the App Store.
The end of Twitter, which -. Vine verbal aspects of the whole philosophy of the website Compared to believe, the best social sharing their experiences of the user's true identity and the real world is linked, Twitter users can register under a false name. and fought with the government and law enforcement agencies, the information from the user.
For example, Twitter has taken a hands-off approach of more adult content. There is no need to hunt hard the user employ hashtags to adult life share (# Twitter After Dark was a trending topic on the site almost every day -. Clicker I).
In contrast, search hashtags struck many people (such as nudity or porn # #) to the popular Instagram app sharing photos purchase by year of Facebook, which has no effect, as the apple-like Instagram environment. Include sexually explicit images is a difficult if not impossible to find.
On Monday afternoon, hours after Vine has apologized and removed porn videos of the editors of the selected works are available online that chaos subsides.
As some observers have noted other Vine is nothing new in the world of technology.
"In the new video, almost all of them or a photo service shows us since the dawn of the Internet, from Flickr to Chatroulette is very difficult to make these pages or applications g-rating of the company and learn how. The police knew not, such as Flickr, or died as they were Chatroulette ", the Atlantic Wire Adam Clark Estes wrote in an article titled" Ashes to pornography because it will definitely be a problem. ".
In a statement to CNN asked Twitter, which has the app on hand - Users can report inappropriate videos they see.
"Video as inappropriate invited viewers click through before I got the video says," the spokesman said in a statement. This video will be removed Vine guidelines written by the site and the user that the order be canceled dedicated.
Terms of ash prohibited harassment or abuse of illegal activities and behaviors, such as impersonate other users or violating trademarks and copyrights.