The site is called TwittSex.com, and even though it's too new to have appeared in Alexa's rankings yet, the site has attracted mainstream headlines for being the first adult version of Twitter.
Regardless of how accurate that is, the site is notable because it's not built on Twitter's proprietary coding platform, or API, but instead is a custom job that offers its own internal API.
Leading tech blog TechCrunch.com anointed TwittSex as the first adult version of Twitter. A brief tour of the site reveals very few initial members and only a few pages of posts. The site comes with a URL-shortening tool similar to popular services like Bit.ly or TinyURL.com. Not surprisingly, the action centers on exchanging erotic photos.
"It looks like the service will let you attach sexual pictures to your tweets, which then display in others streams," tech analyst MG Siegler said. "That should make tweet sex — the action, not the service — decidedly more visual and interesting."
TwitSex's biggest competition could come form Twitter itself, which hosts hundreds of adult performers and executives on its popular servers. In addition, Twitter apparently allow such racy language that TwittSex is planning to harness, as sex writer Violet Blue discovered.
"Sex and the tweet isn't a new idea, and it's on the rise," she said, "tweet" being the Twitter parlance for one of its 140-character messages. "Perhaps even moreso as sex workers, international fetish models, dominatrixes, tech savvy porn stars, adult companies with marketing departments, hip porn directors, sex toy makers, and yes, even sex educators have created accounts and sporadically tell the world what's on their mind."
