Zune HD Twitter app now live UPDATE: it censors tweets!

It was a slow rollout today, but the promised Zune HD Twitter app is now live in Marketplace. We've been playing with it a little since we got it, and while it's definitely one of the more attractive mobile Twitter clients we've come across, it's also distressingly laggy: it's stalled out several times just scrolling a list of tweets, button presses go ignored, and refreshing data seems to cause all sorts of consternation -- our Zune's dropped its WiFi connection several times now. Not sure what's going on with that, but we've definitely seen some far more polished apps running on the Zune, so we're hoping these glitches get cleaned up soon.

Update: Turns out there's a bigger problem here than just poor performance -- as reader Scott Zero points out, it censors naughty words out of tweets in your timeline. (Seriously -- here's his original tweet that we've highlighted above.) Sure, it's a free app, but this kind of active content censorship just rubs us the wrong way -- even worse than Apple's various Twitter-related App Store shenanigans. Bleh.

[Dreamscape86 Posted Dec 17th 2009 1:39AM]

"even worse than Apple's various Twitter-related App Store shenanigans"

How is censoring an app worse than completely BANNING it? At least you can read the tweets. It's not like you can't figure out what it says. Yeah, there should be a way to turn censoring off, but c'mon.

[tweak Posted Dec 17th 2009 4:14AM]

ZOMG CENSORED

[willowtwf Posted Dec 17th 2009 8:13AM]

guess i'm back to waiting for an android PMP. sigh.

[albertosostreaolcom Posted Dec 17th 2009 9:10AM]

i dont like twitter lol i got bored of it!?!.

[d3sc3nd3ncy Posted Dec 17th 2009 11:01AM]

Only one thing can be said to this: F*** Yea!

[Kid Red Posted Dec 17th 2009 11:23AM]

Microsoft are nazis.
Microsoft is the gestapo.
Microsoft (insert other lame Apple bash comment that now suits MS)

[tekdemon Posted Dec 17th 2009 5:48PM]

Are you guys certain that there isn't an option to uncensor the tweets?
That said it might not be entirely a terrible idea-sometimes you give your cool new phone to kids/coworkers/friends to check it out and it might not be optimal for them to see your curse-filled twitter ;)