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Twitter is cracking down on “revenge porn.”

The microblogging site — whose CEO Dick Costolo recently admitted that Twitter “suck[s] at dealing with abuse” — updated its rules this week to ban the posting of “intimate photos or videos that were taken or distributed without the subject’s consent.”

Twitter said it will process complaints through its “Trust & Safety team” worldwide, 24 hours a day.

Twitter cautioned that not all unwanted postings will be forbidden under the new rules — such as in the case of last fall’s celebrity photo hacking scandal that flooded Twitter with naked pictures of actress Jennifer Lawrence.

“We may consider the context and nature of the information posted, local privacy laws, and other case-specific facts,” Twitter said.

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