I am thinking of getting a subscription to Twistys, but when I search for some of the classic models (i.e. Erica Campbell) they don't show up. Does anyone know if they have removed the older photosets/videos? That would be one of the main reasons for getting a subscription. It would be a shame if those photos are no longer available.
I joined Twistys today. You can download streaming videos at 1080p (5K bitrate) no problem if using a decent download manager - I use IDM. I decided to upgrade to VIP after downloading a few videos just to see if there is any difference in the video quality - and there is none, not even for the bitrate size. This was disappointing because 5K bitrate for 1080p is just standard quality. So, save yourself $10 because there is absolutely no improvement in the video quality. You would only pay the $10 if your download manager cannot capture streaming video. PS the same also applies for Babes.com (ie, no video improvement) but for MOFOS.com you do get a better bitrate of 12K.
This site definitely has a lot of content, that's about where the good news ends. Twistys has changed A LOT since I was a member a few years ago.
-Updates are few and far between.
-Content is leaning towards gg and dirty bg sex rather than the classy solo stuff Twistys used to be so good at.
-Interface is not very user-friendly, you can't even list anything alphabetically wtf!
-Be VERY careful if signing up. This site uses a system of redirects and pre-filled check boxes. When I first logged in I was forced to wade through 3 redirect pages of "promotional offers" before I actually got to the members area wtf? You could well be paying for stuff that you didn't even know about.
-In order to download anything. you need a "VIP" membership, which costs extra.
-To rub it in Twistys gives members no point of contact to vent their frustration/confusion/hatred for the site. If that isn't a big "fuck you", What is?
I find Twistys shifty and unscrupulous and I regret signing up again. Unfortunately, you won't know how good/bad a site is until AFTER you pay.
I just noticed they are offering a Valentine's special for $59.00 a year for the regular membership. I looked and this is for the current material only, NO DOWNLOADS level. To get downloads, you either pay $34.95 a month MORE at sign-up for a "premium" membership or $10.00 a month more for the "VIP" membership once you join. I'm not sure what else the premium membership includes since they don't explain levels anywhere.
I just rejoined Twisty's using the TBP/PU discount and when I went to download my first video, the damn site is telling me I have to pay $10 more a month? That REALLY sucks! So they basically are saying FUCK YOU to the Porn User discount. Nowhere when I signed up did it say that this was a limited membership or provide any information about a required upgrade to download videos. (There was an option for Twisty's premium for $39 extra a month, but no explanation so I unchecked it.)
The TBP review over here at "Twisty's Network" mentions it, but my prior review and my link to the site was from the twistys.com review page. (TBP/PU folks, don't move reviews to a new page, merge them! It is not a new site.)
I spent a few minutes chatting with support and they said it was "because there was a lot of piracy." Really? How does paying an extra $10 eliminate piracy? There didn't seem to be any other options, so I cancelled while I had the guy connected.
I went back into the site and discovered that there are no options to download images either. Apparently that also requires the upgrade. What a sleazy, sleazy way to screw your customer base for a few extra bucks.
Sorry, you just lost me as a subscriber, Twistys. I've joined pretty much every year since 2000 and have written pretty good reviews. Looks like that will be ending this month.
I think I will write a review based on the value I get with the non-VIP membership compared to the 30 or so other sites I've been a member of within the last year. High score? I think not.
I just rejoined Twisty's using the TBP/PU discount and when I went to download my first video, the damn site is telling me I have to pay $10 more a month? That REALLY sucks! So they basically are saying FUCK YOU to the Porn User discount. Nowhere when I signed up did it say that this was a limited membership or provide any information about a required upgrade to download videos. (There was a cross check to Twisty's VIP for an extra $39 a month (really??) which I unchecked since there was no information about it anywhere.)
I spent a few minutes chatting with support and they said it was "because there was a lot of piracy." Really? How does paying an extra $10 eliminate piracy? There didn't seem to be any other options, so I cancelled while I had the guy connected.
I went back into the site and discovered that there are no options to download images either. Apparently that also requires the upgrade. What a sleazy, sleazy way to screw your returning customer base for a few extra bucks. Why would anyone want a membership to a site full of videos and images that they can't download? Oh, wait. Your not telling anybody that until after they sign up! Wow. Clearly something thought up by Dr. E-vil to make...hundreds of dollars.
Sorry, you just lost me as a subscriber, Twistys. I've joined pretty much every year since 2000 and have written pretty good reviews. Looks like that will be ending this month.
I think I will write a review based on the value I get with the non-VIP membership (read that as NONE) compared to the 30 or so other sites I've been a member of within the last year that allow unlimited downloads. High score? I think not.
At the moment - there's always the possibility that this is just a temporary mistake - non-VIP members have NO ACCESS to download vids - not the newest vids, not the vids released a few months ago, not the vids on Nicole Grave's site.
Good news - as of 6:30 PM Pacific on Tuesday, the download buttons are back. And they work.
So Twistys has recently dramatically cut the quality of their videos by well over 50%. The majority of their videos now top out at only 3,000 kbps. They used to be 10,000 kbps. Most top sites have a minimum of 8000 kbps these days, Twistys is taking a huge step backwards in video quality. Oh but they do provide misleading file names to make you think the videos are of higher quality then they actually are, but if you look at the file properties will see the dramatic reduction in file quality to second or third rate site standards.
I'm testing what I learned from PU about Twistys Network
I just signed up for Twistys Network (again) for $14.95 recurring (last time was over 4 years ago) and am about to start checking it out. Just so you know I unchecked the cross sell for "Twistys Premium" - no idea at all what that is but they want $39 a month extra. The site provided absolutely no explanation what it is.
I also used the trick suggested by some PU members. I used my credit card but used a bad expiry date both the first try and second try when it tried their primary biller MGBILLINGU. Both times it bounced. On the third try it came back with Epoch as the biller where I used the correct expiry date. It worked and I got a confirming email from Epoch and I'm now in and will start checking it out.
I'll report back after the first month with a review, if everything works out OK.
So far so good!
BTW, I'm not sure how this site, Twistys Network, is different than the Twistys site that gets $5 more. Not sure I'll find out from this little test but we'll see.
Be careful when joining! I joined for a one month membership and got my account. However I got only streaming access to the videos. The site offers the video download option for additional 9.99 euro. So keep in mind, when thinking about a membership for 29.95 euro, you will have streaming acess only unless adding more money for VIP membership. Site does not mention this via join page! Be aware of this!
Furthermore: cancel process is rather complicated. Via website you get the message: "We cannot cancel VIP subscriptions at this time, if you have a VIP subscription please contact us by Phone or Live Chat to cancel." I had to get into chat contact with 3 more offers to decline until sucessful cancelling. Biller is: twistys@probiller.com
It was only 2 years ago this site provided 2 new videos a day, now it's only 1 new video ever other day, a full 75% reduction in new video content. The tech quality of the videos hasn't changed, but the quality of performers has, overall, gone downhill. You'll still get some good ones, but the selection of monthly Treats is mostly a joke now. Even the work of the better videographers/photographers is not what it used to be more often than not. So what you have is a 75% reduction in new content and overall it's worse content. Way to destroy a once great site.
I've tried entering Twisty's via the TBP and PU discount links and get a server error every time. Tried Firefox and Chrome and neither works. Any suggestions?
WARNING - My account got hacked and incurred charges
I joined through MBI-Probiller and just noticed several charges for Twisty's cams. I didn't sign up for that nor did I use it. I contacted MBI-Probiller first and they were useless. They actually went through their usual stuff about why I should remain a member even after I explained that I wasn't a member and my account was hacked.
Exercise care and keep an eye on your account!
The site owners were helpful and had the fraudulent account closed and the charges reversed but the biller's support was absurd.
I contacted customer support to ask why the thumbnails for older sets didn't match the set. I was told this was because they are eliminating zip downloads for older sets - 2010 and older. I don't see why that would affect the thumbnails and customer service had no explanation. However, a lot of the older sets do not have ZIPs. From what I gather I expect the zips are in the process of being removed.
Customer service is run by a third-party and has very little information about what's going on on the site itself.
I sent a message to their feedback address and haven't received a reply.
As you navigate backwards in time you will eventually get to the point where the thumbnails no longer match the photo sets! I've seen this a number of times, but the following example seems to be repeatable:
1. Go to the models page and select Nicole Graves (She has lots of sets)
2. Go to page 6 -- all the thumbnails should match
3. Go to page 7 -- starting about half way down the page (Nov 2012) you should see thumbnails of other models, but when you open the set it will be Nicole.
I bit on the $10 per month offer and man am I regretting it. I haven't been here in a few years and boy have things changed (for the worse) under the new management.
Everything is now housed under the twistysnetwork portal. You can select a site and choose pics or vids or both to view. Sh*t immediately goes south after that. The page display only allows for 20 scenes. After that you can only advance 2 pages at a time (big problem with a site this large). Say you're on page 24 and you can click on a scene. After you're done you click the "back" button on your browser; PRESTO, you automatically get taken back to page one (a problem with a Flash driven sites with no internal site "back" and "forward" buttons). Now you get to keep on clicking two pages at a time to get back to the page you were on and repeat ad infinitum, ad nauseum. If you were screening under just pics or just vids it forgets that too. If you were on a particular subsite of Twistys sometimes it forgets that too.
Using the advanced navigation doesn't fix the problem and neither does switching browsers. The url specs in the browser only show that you're on a single page no matter what internal page you might be on so you can't manually override the "back to square one" problem either.
Postscript: The next day I finally figured a work around, you have to right click on a scene and open in a new tab (duh me). Still, why should I have to do this? It doesn't help that their regular search engine is crappola either. The inability to page jump on a site with so much content is still a pain.
They are running a promo for $10! (watch out for the cross-check) I just re-joined so I haven't seen much, but so far it looks about the same as it did in 2012 with more content. They still don't display sets on one page. Videos are 720p max and images are 3000 across max. Many very (too) familiar models here. Very easy to download zips. A lot of advertising...
For $10 I don't know how you can go wrong! (Read my old review.)
As of today Twistys has reduced it's update schedule from what was once 3 photo sets and 2 videos a day only 6 months ago to only 1 photo set and 1 video a day. The reason? A major decline in memberships (income) due to a major decline in quality of new content over the last 3 months. Now that's all they can afford.
Twistys still has a lot of great historical content, but new content is rapidly becoming mostly 2nd rate stuff you'd find on free sites AND now there's less of it. They also censor most negative comments. The new content manager is on Twitter and acts like he doesn't care about the site and it shows. Of course the VP doesn't give him much funding to work with anymore either.
The MindGeeks (Twistys parent company) VP decided to screw over the runner up of the Treat of the Year contest and make the 5th place finisher runner up because they want to completely change Twistys into just another blah boy/girl site.
They've already shrunk updates from 3 photo sets and 2 videos a day down to 2 and 1 and the quality seems to be dropping off. They still advertise 3 and 2 updates, so they are engaging in illegal false advertising and have done so for a couple months now.
If you're thinking of joining Twistys for hot models in glamor style solo and girl/girl shoots, well that may only be historical content going forward. The slimeball VP who is now in charge is determined to change the site into generic boy/girl site so don't expect a lot of new traditional Twistys content going forward. These slimeballs also run Brazzers and other sites and have ZERO respect for customers, models and everyone who works for them.
Twistys, (but soon to be not as we currently know it?)
Well it would appear that Mindgeek has decided to make some (dodgy) moves with Twistys.
This all started with the leaking of the TOTY winners followed by the revelation that the runner up was not going on the TOTY trip (replaced by one of the other contestants) as in previous years (and the further developments that this had been mandated by parent company management).
This all caused an uproar on the forums which then resulted in the link to the forums being taken away from the members site. Since this has happened, the manager of the site who took over in the running from Shap after it sold has left (fired?).
This is all addition to the various site malarky that has occured recently:
- the drop in updates (yet they still advertise 3 galleries and 2 videos a day)
- the removal of advance search
- the replacement of their entire photo retouching team
There are rumours that they will no longer be shooting solo-only models. Shap has even popped up on the forums wondering what the hell is going on...
I joined here on a whim, due to the very good TBP price. It's nothing revolutionary, but it's a solid site with lots of content - my review to follow. But for such a big, high-profile site, the members area is a little disappointing. Page loads are slow and there are frequent errors when loading pages (sometimes have to load 2-3 times to get a page to work).
As noted in a recent review, the advanced search - which is essential for a site of this size - is AWOL, so just paging through the models is the best way to browse. And although you can add photographers as favourites, there doesn't seem to be a way to click through and see all their material.
Granted it's a bit churlish to complain for the price! But a site like this should be more on top of this stuff...
I generally research before I join a site, so I know what I'm getting into. So I knew before joining Twistys that I was going to a site that is primarily a photo and solo site with some hardcore videos thrown in as well. And for the most part that's been true. But I must admit that I was really pleasantly surprised when I started looking at their older video content and started finding hardcore videos that have to be from around the start of the last decade (technically, these scenes were probably made earlier than the earliest updates to the site). It has honestly been the best thing about my membership so far, since I'm not really much of a picture guy.
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