Following the controversy erupting over adult-oriented clips appearing on Vine, the Twitter-owned video-sharing app has added an age rating of 17 and older. Launched last month, Vine lets iOS users
create, edit and share videos lasting no longer than six seconds.
When it became clear the app was being used by early adopters to post pornographic material, Twitter responded by trying to
make it more difficult for people to find the adult videos by adjusting its hashtag search feature.
The company had previously taken the step of adding a warning message at the start of
sexually explicit videos to address complaints. The latest version of Vine, however, will carry the adult content rating in the App Store after initially being introduced as suitable for users 12 and
over. The update was first reported by The Verge. Whether the kerfuffle ends here
isn’t clear. Age restrictions online, including those in the App Store, are hardly airtight.