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Twitter Censoring Trending Topics? Isn't It About Time?

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Jun 19, 2009

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Tonight, the bored and lonely segment of Twitter users banded together to push three sexy, raunchy, and totally inappropriate terms into the trending topics leaderboard.

Within minutes (as far as we could tell), both terms were removed from the list on the web interface at Twitter.com. However, they still showed up on third party services such as TwitScoop and Hashtags.org. We feel this blog's cachet and provenance do not allow for repetition of such phrases, so you'll have to check out the screen shots below and gasp in mock horror along with us.

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And as of this moment, none of these terms are anywhere to be found on the Twitter website, although they all were a mere 10 minutes ago.

As asinine, spammy, emo, and pointless as trending topics have been in the recent past, why now is the Twitter team choosing to censor that list on their website? Is it the overtly sexual nature of the terms, or the fact that some people would consider those words indecent or profane?

Perhaps this will serve as a nice wake-up call to the team that the trending topics list is ra

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