Twitter to act on Vine users uploading porn

Twitter is set to act over explicit adult content appearing on Vine after footage of hardcore pornography ended up on the video sharing site’s front page.

• Twitter to block porn searches and delete users who upload porn on Vine

• Move comes as “human error” led to six-second clip of hard pornography featuring on new microvideo site’s homepage

The social networking site was forced to apologise after a “human error” allowed a six-second x-rated clip to feature prominently on Vine, which was launched last week.

The video appeared on Monday as an ‘editor’s pick’ and was tagged with #nsfwvine and #porn.

Twitter has now taken steps to block searches for sexually explicit material, and has blocked users guilty of posting graphic content.

A user found to be uploading such content, NSFWVine, appeared to have been blocked by the micro-blogging site earlier today.