Despite serving as the online watercooler for journalists, politicians and VCs, Twitter isn’t the most profitable social network on the block. Amid internal shakeups and increased pressure from investors to make more money, Twitter reportedly considered monetizing adult content.
According to a report from The Verge, Twitter was poised to become a competitor to OnlyFans by allowing adult creators to sell subscriptions on the social media platform. That idea might sound strange at first, but it’s not actually that outlandish — some adult creators already rely on Twitter as a means to advertise their OnlyFans accounts, since Twitter is one of the only major platforms on which posting porn doesn’t violate guidelines.
But Twitter apparently put this project on hold after an 84-employee “red team,” designed to test the product for security flaws, found that Twitter cannot detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) an …
