Vine, the hot new short video sharing app for iPhone released by parent company Twitter, has quickly developed a seedy element: Shortly after the app’s launch on Thursday, several accounts began posting pornographic, sexually themed and generally not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content, in violation of the terms of Apple’s App Store. Conspicuously, one such video appeared among the top of the app’s Editors’ Picks as of Monday morning, according to The Verge.
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