Zune HD’s Twitter App Censors Out Naughty Words

The Twitter app for Zune HD got a few lukewarm reviews when it launched yesterday, with users citing lag and unresponsiveness as fairly major issues. That new apps on a new-ish platform have some kinks to work out is nothing to get excited over. But then someone discovered the real problem with the app: it censors the naughty words out of tweets. Twitter user ScottZero posted a tweet to his account that included an F-bomb. Nilay Patel at Engadget then took a picture of the tweet as it appeared on his Zune, the four-letter monstrosity now rendered as: f***. F*** indeed. This type of content manipulation is not only annoying, it makes no sense. The Zune HD isn’t primarily aimed or marketed at kids or teens, nor is Twitter the province of youngsters. Why in the world would anyone think that Zune HD users needed to be protected from bad words?