A couple of months ago, NakedCity LA reported on the battle between porn star Kristina Rose and the Twitter image-hosting site Twitpic.

As NakedCity LA pointed out, even the hundreds of tweets of support from her followers (calling Twitpic fascists) did nothing to help. Per the platform’s terms of service:

Twitpic is concerned about the safety and privacy of all its Users, especially children. Therefore, children under the age of 13 are not permitted to use Twitpic.com.

TwitPic reserves the right to remove any image for any reason whatsoever. Specifically, any image uploaded that is pornographic or offensive in nature (including nudity, violence, sexual acts, or sexually provocative images.), infringes upon copyrights not held by the uploader, is illegal or violates any laws, will be immediately deleted and the IP address of the uploaded reported to authorities. Violating these terms will result result in termination of your ability to upload further images.

We reserve the right to ban any individual uploader or website domain from using our servies for any reason.

We pretty much left the matter there — it’s a free service, so it’s not like they owe us anything, right?

Then it happened to our editrix.

Turns out there is a way to get your Twitpic account back. We know she’s involved in BDSM but up until this point we’d never seen her on all fours licking anyone’s footwear, so this was both educational and deeply satisfying.

First, she went to their support page and submitted a ticket:

Esteemed team at Twitpic,

It has come to my attention that my account was pulled — likely due to some of the content that was posted. I want to issue a heartfelt apology for the inconvenience. I have been using your service for a while and never took the time to consider that some of my content would be objectionable. I understand your position and would like to put forth a request to reinstate my account now that I have read and analyzed the terms so I may never violate them again.

I know it’s a long shot, but I love the platform and the service you provide the Twitter community and I would be happy to continue using it. Please take the time to consider this request. I will not disappoint you. Again, please accept my apologies for any content I may have posted that caused Twitpic to receive any form of complaint. I value this platform and the service it provides.

Thank you for taking the time to read and consider this request.

Sincerely,
AV Flox

Twitpic responded two days later:

Hi:

Your account was suspended because of a violation of Twitpic’s TOS http://twitpic.com/terms.do

We realize that sometimes Twitpic’s TOS were violated because users didn’t know what our ‘terms’ were or that they would be enforced. So we offer you a “SECOND CHANCE”.

Here’s how it works:

Your account has been unsuspended. You have 48 hours (beginning when this notice is sent) to ‘purge’ your account of all violating photos. http://twitpic.com/faq.do will show you how to delete a photo.

No nudity, semi-nudity, thongs, or provocative images allowed.

After the 48 hour grace period your account will be reviewed. If it meets Twitpic’s terms your account will remain open, however, your account will be put on our ‘watch’ list. Future violations are not given the “SECOND CHANCE” offer and your account will be permanently suspended! Also, accounts that fail to comply with Twitpic’s terms after the 48 hour grace period will be permanently suspended.

Thanks.

Our editrix removed all offending content.

Two days later, the following message arrived:

I reviewed your account and your account now meets Twitpic’s TOS. Your account is now on our ‘watch’ list. Thanks for complying with our terms, we are glad to have you back.

Thanks for choosing Twitpic!

Our editrix has managed to keep her account free of the offensive content she so adores. All it cost her was a little dignity.

There you have it, in case you care. Of course, if you’re just unwilling to part with those photos that make Twitter so much more interesting, there is always Ctrl V.

You’re welcome.

We’ve seen it before. Truth is, the one night stand joke never ceases to amuse us, so when we saw this on FailBlog, we just had to share:

Via bentoboxx.

And because we can’t seem to get enough abuse, here’s WiseMuv, a new site that — if it catches — is bound to make everyone just a little more bitter and annoyed than usual. Yay!

No, seriously, this is insane. But what do we know, some of you people love to go Facebook official and some couples even dig fighting in “public” (i.e., on Facebook walls), so maybe you’ll be into this.

Here’s how it works:

And this is the report the site sends you back once your “advisors” have answered.

This is where we’d provide you with what our friends told us we should do about our lovers, but we don’t want their opinions and don’t want them to start thinking it’s OK to give them. Instead, we got really smart and made an account for our editrix and her new favorite and sent it to her best girlfriends.

We’re not surprised to discover that not a single one of them had any idea who he was.

Sneaky.

OK, so the title is a lie. Facebook is still pulling off pics like it’s no big thing, even when they’re friends-only. However, the SF Weekly has reported some really lolsy activity we can’t resist but want to share with you. Get a load of this captcha (for those who don’t know, a “captcha” is a simple test used on a lot of sites to make sure comments or links aren’t being posted by a computer, or bot):

We like it, Zucker!

Via Alexia Tsotsis.

It was a typical day for our editrix of hacking through the contents of her inbox to try to get some sense of what the week would look like. Suddenly, a notification from Facebook — she’d been tagged in a photo! Always the narcissist, or perhaps always aware of the tinge on her conscience, she clicked immediately.

It was one of those square bingo-looking grids, the ones where each square has a descriptor and people tag their friends on them accordingly. Our editrix had been tagged as “has the prettiest eyes.” She was immediately conflicted — this looks fun, but who past the age of 13 does this sort of thing?

Clearly, we need a more “adult” version to override the silliness of it all. Feel free to take it and unleash havoc on your own friends’ walls.

Cheaters. Love them or hate them, at the end of the day, they’re the ones having the cake and eating it, too, when many of you are still outside the veritable smorgasbord looking for a parking space. While we can’t get you some ass, we can at least provide access to cheaters’ sleazy shenanigans. Introducing CheatConfession.

Not only can you see the naughty tales of cheaters from around the English-speaking webs, you can also check on the stories of woe from people who have been cheated on and read about people thinking about cheating. You can also judge them! Tell cheaters if it was justified, tell those who were wronged how much their sitch sucks, and help potential cheaters decide!

In their write-up, Mashable worried about the potential for trolls:

First of all, it’s targeted toward a very broad demographic, which means it’s prime stomping ground for trolls. Add in required anonymity and you’ve got a recipe for immature answers and wanton cruelty. (A look through some of the comment streams confirms our suspicions.)

The realm of Internet (Internet) memes is getting dicey when it comes to sharing and commenting on the misfortunes of others. Popular sites like Texts From Last Night and FML (Fuck My Life) include similar confessions, as well as the ability to comment. Still, what separates this site from the aforementioned memes is the format, which seems to suggest a community where one may ask for and give advice — rather than a venue in which to share amusing (albeit sad-sack) anecdotes.

Overall, we here at Sex and the 405 think it’s a cute novelty site. Basically, we’ll cheat on our daily reads with it today and then go back to cheating with UnhappyHipsters.

Information from Mashable, via Denise Tanton.

Earlier this month, the site CougarLife.com, which connects older women with younger men, got a bit of a nasty shock from Google. The search engine giant, which was receiving $100,000 a month from CougarLife to manage its advertising and place it on content pages, told CougarLife that its ads, which had been appearing since October, would no longer be accepted. The reason? Cougar sites are not “family safe.”

CougarLife suggested placing a different ad: instead of one picturing older women and younger men together, they proposed an image of the company’s president, Claudia Opdenkelder, 39, without a man in the picture.

Their Google representative was not cooperative. “The policy is focused particularly around the concept of ‘cougar dating’ as a whole,” the e-mail from Google said. The rep asked if the company was open to changing “the ‘cougar’ theme/language specifically (including the domain if necessary).”

For all of Google’s concerns about being “family safe,” we’re surprised to find similar advertising for sites that match older men with younger women and sugar daddies with sugar babies, like DateAMillionaire.com, still get placement where CougarLife does not.

“It’s age and gender discrimination,” said CougarLife president, Claudia Opdenkelder. “It’s just about older, successful, independent, strong women who enjoy someone that’s younger. Some of the men sites, they are borderline prostitution, and Google has no problem having them advertise.”

CougarLife is currently considering filing a discrimination complaint in Canada, where the company is based, and also looking into possible legal options here in the United States.

Image by Neil McIntosh. Information from the New York Times, via Brett Schulte.

Typical late night, sniffing around the boards, checking the networks. There’s nothing good on the intertubes. Then, a typical e-stalking session leads us down a strange corridor to a place we never thought we’d have to venture: the Minion’s lair.

He loves food, he loves girls and he’s built a site around being the lump of flesh every girl who wants to make it in porn has to fuck. He’s ThisIsWhyYou’reFat gone Xtube — and it’s neither sexy nor lulz, but still impossible to look away.

We want to talk to this guy. If any of you have any information, please contact us. If not, here are some pics:

YES! You Can Haz Cheezburger!

Om nom nom.

Nipplz haz flavor!

DO NOT WANT.

Images from TheMinion.com.

As you know, Facebook and our editrix have a pretty turbulent relationship, mostly relating to Facebook’s strong dislike for her penchant to overshare slutty images of herself.

You can imagine how amused we were then when we saw Dan Zarrella’s data regarding what users are sharing on the social network.

Zarrella applied two linguistic algorithms (the same ones used on the popular site TweetPsych that tell you what your content is mostly about on Twitter) and he found, based on the articles in his dataset, that more articles are shared with sexual references in their titles.

“Additionally,” the award-winning social media and viral marketing scientist notes, “positivity is more shared than negativity.”

So if you want your stuff shared on Facebook, he suggests: try to write positively about sex!

Graph from Dan Zarrella, via Marsha Collier.

Why surf Craigslist’s text ads when you can be amused by a mini web series? Introducing your favorite new productivity killer: Craigslist TV, a new series that follows Craigslist users as they use the site to make things happen.

Any Los Angeles user that has checked out the classifieds site in the past couple of months has noticed the opt-in box at the bottom of the ad-submit form:

The first time our editrix saw it, we overheard her moan, “God, that’s so L.A. You can’t even try to arrange a nooner without an eight man film crew…” Ain’t that the truth?

To our knowledge, she has not participated in any episodes.

This first season has 14 episodes, released weekly via YouTube. Each webisode is filmed and directed by Drew Brown of Brownstone Entertainment, of Project Runway, This American Life and Top Chef fame. Watch! It’s super lolsy.

Hey, your agent hasn’t called you in weeks. Go get them, star!