Twitter has apologized for highlighting porn Monday morning in the "Editors' Picks" category of its video-sharing app Vine, citing a "human error."
The app — which launched last week and allows users to create and share six-second GIF-like looping videos — featured a not-safe-for-work video as an Editors' Pick before it was promptly removed. Editors' Picks are hand-selected by staff to display the most creative and interesting videos posted to the app.
"A human error resulted in a video with adult content becoming one of the videos in Editor's Picks, and upon realizing this mistake we removed the video immediately," a Twitter spokesperson told Mashable. "We apologize to our users for the error."
Many Vine users posted comments to the video, expressing disappointment and threatening to delete the app.
Over the weekend, users started to notice that videos saved via the Vine app with hashtags such as #porn and #sex revealed graphic videos, many of which had a warning that the following content contained sensitive content.
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