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Twitter's Vine makes porn video an 'editor's pick'

Twitter's new app, which allows users to post and share six-second-long videos, chose a pornographic video this morning as its Editor's Pick.

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This final note today, in which Twitter gets hoisted on its own petard.

The company's got a new app out, as you might have heard. It's called Vine, and lets you post videos -- as long as they're only six seconds long.

Here's the 'oops' part. The Internet, being the Internet -- it didn't take long for six-second-long pornography to make its presence known. Twitter posted one as an Editor's Pick this morning before it was hastily removed. Apologies all the way around, of course.

We did our own Vine video Friday. No porn, though. Sorry.

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Kai Ryssdal is the host and senior editor of Marketplace, public radio’s program on business and the economy. Follow Kai on Twitter @kairyssdal.