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

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

As well reported, there is already an endless amount of porn on Vine, a new video service Twitter. But now visible, the social networking company to be doing it a little harder to get the material for adults only.

According to Edge, Twitter blocked on some porn of Vine search terms, such as "# porn." At the same time, however, it is clear that there are still many ways people find sex tapes 6-second. For example, search for "# nsfw," which means not safe for work, as a result of any lack of video.

And while some of the videos now as a result of tapping on the screen need to get past a warning that reads, "This post may contain sensitive material," they are still easy to find.

A Twitter spokesperson told CNET, "We are in the process of changing how users find and view sensitive material. We are experimenting with several approaches and will continue to iterate.

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

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Facebook stops Twitter users contacting friends with new Vine app

Less than a day after the launch of Vine Twitter, Facebook cut off the video sharing application on "find people" button, which allows members to connect to their Facebook friends.

Twitter users want to use the feature to be greeted with an error message saying that Vine is authorized to make the Facebook application.

Twitter and Facebook so far made ​​no comment on the development, the latest in a series of hostilities between the microblogging site and all the social networking giant.

At the end of last year Instagram, Facebook-owned photo sharing app, disabled the feature which allowed Twitter to display correctly on photos, in a sign of growing tension between the two platforms.

This meant that Twitter users were forced to click through to the site Instagram photos if they wanted to see in their entirety.

Instagram used to work closely with Twitter but the relationship deteriorated after Facebook bought the app in $ 1bn deal last April.

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vodafone to cut free social media and adjust billing or some customers

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Some of Vodafone's customers will start to notice their data quota vanish quicker than usual after the telco announced changes to take effect on February 13.

One of the changes will mean prepaid customers' access to social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace will no longer be free.

The other change will see the telco begin billing data usage in 1 megabyte blocks with a minimum "session" of 1 megabyte on all prepaid plans.

This second change will mean that whenever a notification or email is pushed to a customer's smartphone, it will be charged at 1 megabyte, regardless of whether only a few kilobytes of data were used.

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The move comes after Optus stopped offering unmetered social networking access on its contract plans in December.

"No one likes to have to pay for something that they were ordinarily getting for free," said Elise Davidson, a spokeswoman for the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, the peak body that represents consumers on communications issues. "But Vodafone remain one of the cheaper providers when it comes to prepaid. Because this only affects prepaid plans, customers are free to go elsewhere."

Ms Davidson said the change to bill in 1 megabyte blocks for some customers would mean that their data would disappear quicker, but noted that other carrier's prepaid customers, like Optus, were billed in a similar way.

"If you are getting your emails pushed from Microsoft Exchange every 15 minutes, that's 4 megabytes an hour," Ms Davidson said. "People are therefore going to have to look at the settings on their phones in terms of the push notifications if they want to minimise the data that they are using."

Vodafone spokeswoman Karina Keisler said the telco would start billing for social networking access because it was becoming "confusing" for customers who were using different apps to access their social networks on their smartphones.

Under existing arrangements, Ms Keisler said that if a customer used Twitter but accessed it through an app like HootSuite, then it counted towards their metered data anyway and that some customers didn't realise this.

It was only access through Twitter, Facebook or MySpace's official app or website that was free.

"Some of our customers found these charges confusing," Ms Keisler said.

The change in some plans from billing in 25 kilobyte blocks to 1 megabyte blocks was attributed to Vodafone bringing all of its plans into line.

Ms Keisler said affected customers initially "will notice that they will reach their credit limit quicker", but pointed out that there were a "range of options" available to them when assessing their current plan. One of those options was to change plans, another to purchase a data pack.

When Vodafone reviewed its 2.6 million prepaid customer's usage patterns, Ms Keisler said 117,000 were identified as being potentially affected by the prepaid plan changes.

Telco analyst Foad Fadaghi said Vodafone offering free social networking on prepaid plans wasn't sustainable, but something that would have lured quite a few customers.

"From a competitive standpoint it might put Vodafone at a disadvantage if some of the resellers continue to offer better deals," Mr Fadaghi said.

He added that the changes were unlikely to be popular among users.

"It might encourage prepaid customers – who tend to be quite receptive to churning between carriers – to shop around," he said.

"That might not be so good for Vodafone if they start losing customers because of it."

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