Autocomplete of Twitter search now displays abuse videos such as `` put the cat in the mixer '' and `` put the hamster in the microwave '' and Twitter stops functioning

Twitter has disabled search autocomplete. The cause was that phrases that lead to abuse videos and torture videos were recommended when you entered search words, and abuse phrases were also displayed from words such as 'dog', 'cat', and 'hamster'. .

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This problem started to appear around May 10th. I can't confirm it because it has already been dealt with, but Philip Mai (@PhMai), a researcher at the Canadian research company Social Media Lab, has reported some specific cases.

According to Mai, typing 'child' will result in 'child por' and 'child leaks', typing 'dog' will result in 'dog screwdriver', typing 'hamster' will result in 'Hamster in microwave', and typing 'cat' will result in 'Hamster in microwave'. It was said that candidates such as 'cat in blender' were displayed. There are many words that you can guess the content without translating, but there are actually people who have released videos related to these, so please do not search out of curiosity.

???? Twitter search autocomplete/search suggestions seem to have no guardrails right now ... ???? pic.twitter.com/nX4JkxAAaZ

— Philip Mai????Info doesn't put itself into practice (@PhMai) May 11, 2023

According to the news site Motherboard, if you search for 'wagner' in addition to this, you will find 'wagner hammer', 'wagner hammer', ' If you search for 'texas (Texas)', phrases such as 'texas mall video' related to the shooting incident at the shopping mall that occurred on May 7 are displayed as candidates, and if you select it, you can actually view the unmodified video of the incident. He said he was able to.

In response to these reports, Twitter disabled the autocomplete function in the app and browser versions. If you actually search, the search results for 'dog' are 'dog', 'doggy', and 'doge'.

'cat' was 'cat 8' 'cat 6' 'cata'.

News site Motherboard asked Twitter for comments, but said that there was no response. In addition, Twitter's public relations department has been significantly reduced due to a large-scale layoff from October 2022 , and comments on interviews have almost disappeared.