Keep Yourself Safe from Pornocolypse on Twitter

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There is a big panic right now about "pornocolypse". In case you are not amongst the panicked, it is about the rumor that 10,000,000 Twitter accounts related to porn are going to be terminated. This article came out in May, right before Twitter did its regular housekeeping purge. So many people are in a panic. The housekeeping purge is something Twitter does a few times a year. They suspend accounts they believe to be fake. If it is not fake, then the owner protests the suspension and it gets reinstated, thus proving that it is an account belonging to a real person. Some people see their account followers drop by a few hundred people when this happens. Then it comes back up as real accounts re-verify. But the fact that this happened a couple of weeks following the article gave more strength to what the article was saying, despite it just being coincidence. 

I want to give you reasons not to panic.

1. The article was not written by someone from Twitter. It has not been validated. Twitter has not said it is going to do this.
2. There is not way for Twitter to know if you are a porn account or not. They cannot tell if you are a porn account or just sharing pictures of Kim Kardashians naked oily ass. 
3. If you follow the Twitter TOS you will be fine. This mean, have your content marked as sensitive (which is Twitter's only safeguard to keep the timeline sfw), do not put nudity in your header or your avatar. Beyond that, you are pretty much safe. 

So don't worry about the pornocolypse right now. When it is time to panic, I will be the first one running around screaming and I will let you know. 
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  • WebcamStartupWebcamStartup
    Twitter is making some acquisitions and running R&D on an AI that can do just that: http://www.wired.com/2015/07/twitters-new-ai-recognizes-porn-dont/

    Currently they're actually outsourcing manual work to Asia.
  • 7veils7veils
    Yes, the big push is for stopping revenge porn and child porn. 
  • WebcamStartupWebcamStartup
    Hmm, I figured it was about the advertiser debacle with adult content that Twitter recently went through.
  • 7veils7veils
    Yeah, it did seem like that. The reason the advertiser issue happened was because of a coding issue around the revenge and CP issue. They were messing with the code to help find that content and it screwed some things up, and a mainstream advertiser got caught up in it. 
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