Twitter making it harder (sort of) to find porn on Vine

Unsurprisingly, there's plenty of porn on Twitter's new video service. It's just a little harder to find now that the company has blocked certain search terms. But plenty remain.

by Daniel Terdiman

January 28, 2013 2:11 PM PST Follow @GreeterDan

Although Twitter has blocked Vine search terms like "porn," it's still easy to find porn on the service by searching for terms like "nsfw."

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As has been well reported, there's already an endless amount of porn on Vine, Twitter's new video service. But now, the social-networking company appears to be making it a bit harder to find the adults-only content.

According to The Verge, Twitter has blocked a number of porn-related Vine search terms such as "#porn." At the same time, though, it's clear that there are still plenty of ways to find people's 6-second sex tapes. For example, a search for "#nsfw," meaning not safe for work, resulted in no shortage of videos.

And while some of the resulting videos now require tapping on the screen to get past a warning that reads, "This post may contain sensitive content," they're still easy to find.

A Twitter spokesperson told CNET, "We're in the process of changing how users find and view sensitive content. We're experimenting with a number of approaches and will continue to iterate."