If you're looking to follow news and advocacy about an anticipated Vermont legislature vote this week on legalizing marijuana, a search for the latest tweets that use the combined terms Vermont and marijuana will for many Twitter users
yield zero results. Same goes for searches for tweets using the terms pot, weed or cannabis. The latest results for jackass and jerk , words generally printed without censorship by news outlets, also yield a
blank page with a message claiming: Nothing came up for that search, which is a little weird. Maybe check what you searched for and try again. The omissions are examples of a new censorship syste introduced by Twitter, with users required
to opt out of a filter to see uncensored results. Top results for restricted terms still appear, but results for the most recent posts and for photos, videos and news content tabs do not. |