Monday, January 28, 2013

How Vine Put Hardcore Porn In Front Of Its Entire Userbase

Countless Vine users were surprised to find explicit pornography in their video feeds. Pretty big, as far as launch glitches go.


Vine, Twitter's new video service, is only interesting if you follow a lot of people. So to make sure its new users aren't bored, Vine automatically includes "Editor's Picks" in users' feeds. Most are harmless: lots of food, some stop-motion animation. But today, Vine users found something unusual in their feeds: porn.



"Dildoplay," by user NSFWVine, had been included in the popular feed. And because Vine videos play automatically as you scroll past, quite a few people saw the six-second video in full, and not by choice. Users are upset:





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