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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- Huge amount of content
- Great TBP price
- Pretty much every well-known US model featured
- Multiple daily updates
- Some well-known glamour photographers
- Most videos have no music |
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- Members area dated, a bit glitchy
- Advanced search offline
- Zip file names could be more helpful
- Content arguably uninspired
- Fairly short login timeout |
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I joined Twistys as a snap decision; it's a bit more glam than I usually prefer but it featured a number of models I like and the TBP price of $10 for the first month was too good to refuse.
To login you have to endure both a captcha and some cross-sells, but once there, the members area is fairly uncluttered. It proclaims 3,800 models, 3.4m photos and 100K video clips. I can't confirm this since my own figures were going to be a metric gazillion of each - there is lots of stuff here, going back over a decade. There are typically 3 pictures sets + 2 videos per day, which indicates the size of the site.
However, take the above with a pinch of salt - most picture sets are 100-150 pictures, with zips available, and recent sets from approx the past 3 years go up to 3K size. Similarly most videos are split into 5-8 clips - but you can download the whole scene (anywhere from 10 mins for solo videos to 25 mins for hardcore) as a single file, in sizes up to 720p - again for about 3 years - before then the quality is typically half that.
It does feel slightly dated, though, and is slow to respond - I actually resorted to the public site for browsing models, since it was faster than paging through the model list on the members area. There is a free text search, but no advanced search for finding models by age/hair colour/build etc - it does exist but is broken and has been for some time. This is a shame since it is a necessity on a site this large.
My comment about it featuring models I like - probably applies to everyone here - I wouldn't know where to start when reeling off names, since pretty much every US model is here; along with some of the more popular European and UK models too.
The style is very centrefold glam, such as you'd expect to see in Penthouse etc - the models made up, studio lit with typically sexy lingerie. In some cases it's ordinary; in others it's very good, and Holly Randall - one of the best photographers in the genre - features heavily, as does Tammy Sands, who's work is similar. Also quite a lot from Digital Desire - the soft-focus style is quite distinctive - and most of the UK models featured seem to be shot by APD Nudes, so this site can give you a taste of that also.
Material features full nudity (well, not actually full, depending on your definition; sometimes something stays on, and often - infuriatingly - the high heels) and the majority (not all) feature masturbation, probably roughly evenly split between fully manual and with toys. The focus is largely on solo material - but I'd say - and this is just a rough guess - that maybe 20% is girl-girl, and 10% hardcore. But with the size of the site, that's still a lot if either is something you are after.
This is slightly tricky to score; I found the content a bit uninspiring, as I generally prefer something with a bit more subtlety, or a theme, such as voyeurism - anything that can put me in the scene rather than just looking at a girl posing for the camera. So that's probably why I got more from the videos than the photos here - quite a few feature some fun dirty talk from the models - and almost all of them are devoid of the usual cheesy music track, which was very refreshing.
So if my review seems utilitarian, it's because the site arguably is - it is what it is, a huge site of glam US model content - but with the quantity here there are some good bits and the price is great. If the centrefold style is your thing, this is definitely recommended; for others, you are still likely to find stuff from models you like. |
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Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
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The content is quality. The photo galleries are zipped and many are availible in various qualities (low/med/hq). The videos are available in multiple formats (wmv/mp4/mov) and qualities as well.
The site offers an array of beautiful women, mostly European with a good dose of Latin & Asian models. Most of the content is female only (solo or all girl), but they have couple (m/f, etc) galleries & videos too.
The site offers search for female talent and content (Red Head, Cum Shot, Dildo, etc) which helped in navigation.
I also loaded my download manager with over 100 links and let it run with no problem. So many sites nowadays have limits or cookies that reset, no problem here. The site also met my internet speed limit, no lag at all. |
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Many of the women listed mid 2008 or before (going back to 2004) have their videos/galleries unlisted from their model page; but in some cases the content is still on the site. For example, Trina Michaels is listed as having 1 gallery, but there is not link to it like the more recent models. I found not only 1 gallery, but 2 so far, not by searching her name, which draws a blank, but by perusing content searches. On top of that, I found 1 video so far.
If you're a fan of male stars you are out of luck, they are not searchable or labeled in any way. |
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It's a good site. Huge and high quality across the board, content wise. If they ever modernize the search ability it would be an A+ in my book.
They update everyday (literally) and there is so much to look at & enjoy, it's well worth the price of admission. Just be prepared to look around. There is a lot to see. :) |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Twistys offers thousands of very beautiful models.
Offers thousands of scenes and photos, many exclusive.
Can chat with the stars.
TBP huge discount on first month. |
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I joined thinking the girls would offer something different, like twisting their bodies and unusual positions. Not so. It's similar to other sites out there.
Roku support not offered.
Places where links or movies don't work.
After TBP 1st month discount, site renews at $29.95/month. I think this is overpriced for what they offer.
Too much solo action, too few one on one. |
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Twistys is a nice clean site, but compared to others listed on TBP it is similar. They offer some exclusivity. The prices are above average. For my limited funds, I find better value elsewhere. I'm glad to have tried Twistys, but it's not for me. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Huge amount of content (over 15,000 sets and 5800 videos)
Video and picture quality is very good (pics go up to 2000x3000, video to 720p)
Active forum where staff interact and seem to listen to requests
Interactive live shows every 2-3 months free for members |
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No universal search box (can only search from certain pages)
Navigation is nowhere near as intuitive as it could/should be
Small bugs pop up in various places (old videos missing thumbnails, code leaking at the bottom of some pages, things generally just not working correctly)
Had trouble cancelling (both the online form and the online chat didn't work, had to call in to cancel) |
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The truth of the matter is that I knew this was a site that I wasn't going to like as much as some other people here for 2 reasons. First, I prefer videos to photos, and I primarily know Twistys as a photo site. Second, I knew that their Twistys Hard section was "relatively new", so I wasn't expecting much boy/girl content. But the PU deal was too good to pass up. And while I was pleasantly surprised about both of those things when I joined, there were enough things I didn't like about the site that it left me disappointed.
For the photo section, it was about as good as I was expecting, which is to say quite excellent. The pictures are all quite large and sharp from the ones I looked at, and come in small, medium, and large sizes, with the large topping out at 2,000 by 3,000 pixels. All scenes have downloadable zip files, and most of them have zips available for multiple resolutions. You can favorite photo sets and photographers, but not individual photos, which slightly surprised me but doesn't seem like that big of a deal. The one thing I will say that disappointed me is that while many of the videos actually do have accompanying photo sets, there's no easy way to go from a photo set to it's corresponding video and vice versa. You have to go to the actresses page and find the photo set released around the same time that looks similar (because they aren't necessarily released the same day).
Now to the video. The technical aspects of the videos were about what I expect from a high-level site in this day and age. There were options for standard and high definition up to 720p. No 1080p was surprising, but not a big deal to me as I usually don't download that size anyway. There's over 5800 videos, but the vast majority of them are solo videos, with only 370 videos listed as lesbian and only 240+ in the Twistys Hard category. Which led me to a nice surprise, which is that the Twistys Hard videos weren't the only boy/girl videos they have on their site. It looks like at some point very early in their existence they purchased a bunch of late 90s/early 00s video content from somewhere and put it up, which included another 900+ boy/girl videos. While I suspect that many of these videos aren't exclusive, it was the first time I'd seen most of these movies, and since the content was so old, it included many women who I didn't have any scenes of. I was able to find videos of women who I hadn't thought about in years, and videos of women who are MILFs now from back when they were still young and fresh. The videos aren't of particularly great resolution, which is to be expected, but the fact that they were there at all was probably my favorite part of my membership.
Finding and browsing all that content, though, was easily my least favorite part of the whole thing, because they didn't make it easy at all. The basic problem, in my opinion, is that the site seems to be designed as a photo site that also has some videos. And if that weren't obvious enough from some of the little issues I ran into (for example, the male talent isn't listed on the page for the scene at all, even though they have that info stored with the scene and it can be seen when you add it to your favorites, even after you do that, there's absolutely no way to go through scenes by male talent), it became clear as day when I tried to search through the videos. Because if you do, the search box says "Photo Options" instead of "Video Options". It actually took me 2 days to realize that that was the video search box and that I wasn't being taken to the wrong page. And that is far from the only bug that I found.
Speaking of which, this is the first network I've ever joined that doesn't have a universal search box on every page. The search they do have is very good and thorough (you can search models by things like eye and hair color or country of birth, and you can search by things like wardrobe and location). But you can only do it from a couple pages (the model, photo, videos, and Twistys Hard index pages, to be specific). If you're anywhere else on the site, you have to go back to one of those 4 pages to search. Which just seems like an unnecessarily large pain. It also seems counter intuitive that while they have a space for your profile on every page, you have to actually visit your profile to find a link to see things you've favorited. They could have just added those links to the space they've reserved on every page.
One last thing that left a bad taste in my mouth is that when I tried to cancel, the website wouldn't let me. Their form wouldn't work, and when I tried to do the online chat, I never got a response. I ended up calling their customer support line and that worked fine, but it never should have gotten that far.
So, in the end, while there was a good amount of good content here, it was just so much of a hassle to go through that content that I can't see myself being a member of this site for more than a month or two at a time. |
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Current Member for over 6 months (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
-Plenty of content.
-Multiple Daily updates. Video and Pictures
-Recent videos for the past year have had amazing quality. up to 1280x720. Clear crisp video
-Photos are available up to 2000x3000 after 2009.
-Twistys live. Live nude talk show between models.
-High quality photo sets.
-Plenty of models and diversity of models.
-Good production
-Hair on models styled in glamour fashion.
-Hardcore and Softcore
-Has a great search feature.
-Low cost for premium content |
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-Some older sets and videos are poor quality but these date back to 2003 so I don't hold that against them.
-Not a fan of implants and some models have them but that is just personal preference. |
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Just on price alone and the content it offers I would definitely recommend this site. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
1. Great content
2. Great variety |
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It was the most work I’ve ever done, to see a naked lady.
Thumbnails, a critical part of the selection process, were non-existent. On the phone with their tech support, we resolved the problem by clearing the history file. That only worked if I cleared all my cookies. Hundreds of cookies that identified me to websites I frequent. Stored passwords, all deleted. This must be done 10 to 15 times a day to view thumbnails. In order to remain on the Twistys site, I am prompted for a password sometimes every 5 to 7 minutes, each time having to enter the password that has been deleted in order to see thumbnails, and a capcha, many of which cannot be deciphered. I often then receive a message that I am already logged on.
Activating the back button is a crap shoot. I will activate a download of a lady I’ve found and liked and hit the back button to see more of her. I am taken to another quadrant of the site and have to navigate to the desired photoset, usually requiring logging on once more. |
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There was not enough room in the above box to finish my list of complaints
Great content, but not worth the aggravation.
I do no recommend Twistys
I intend never to revisit this site unless I hear from a trusted source that their habits have changed |
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Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
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Huge collection of photos and videos. Good navigation. Good scoring/rating and review system that isn't inflated by webmasters or users, a full decade of material available. Newer videos are excellent quality. Models come in all shapes and sizes. Nearly every big-name model you've ever heard of. Mostly US models who actually speak! |
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Waaay to many ads for other sites. Cross selling at sign-up verges on fraudulent. (I unchecked the cross sales, had a problem and clicked submit again and the other offers rechecked themselves and cost me money...really ruined the initial perception of the site.) Also, the log in page is linked to a pay chat site and there is a live front-room chat in progress WITH SOUND! Some smart marketing gu decided to do this to get your attention, but it is annoying as hell! |
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Do you remember the original Danni's Hard Drive? You know, before Danni sold it? Well, that site was abused and mismanaged after being sold, but Twisty's is practically an exact replica of the original Danni site. There is a HUGE collection here that spans over a decade. New material is very good. Most of the models are big american names either in nude photography or porn. Wide variety in the sets locations and models. And people seem to be having fun.
All that said, there are a few things that I feel obligated to point out. First, most of the models, though popular are..um..more mature. Among the most highly scored models, you'll notice Kayden Cross, Jana Cova and Heather Vandeven, all looking good in their most recent sets, but probably well into their 30s. Nothing wrong with mature, well endowed models, but the site seems to be pretty heavy with them. To be fair, the site also has some very popular younger models including Malena Morgan, Zoey and Melisa Mendini. One thing about a site that has been around this long is that you can find sets that span a models entire professional career. For example, if you like Sasha Grey, there is a terrific collection here from 2009 and before. But in general you won't really see any knock-out new discoveries here as the stable is mostly pros, many of whom have had more than a little work done. A few of the more popular models are still unaltered, though...thank god.
The sets are generally good. They are not overly staged, there is a decent variety of indoor and outdoor sets, the mix of full-body and close-up shots is good and the lighting is correct. The models are mostly solo, some with toys, but there are a few girl/girl scenes and two and three way sex scenes. One kind of cool thing about some of the videos is that since many of the girls are american, they actually speak! And oh my god what some of them say! Trust me, you WILL be answering out loud when Shawna Lenee, Tori Black or Kasey Chase ask you questions in their videos. This kind of interaction with the audience (ie directly at YOU) is unlike any other site I've seen since...well...the original Danni.com. Very cool!
This is billed as a network, but the other sites that you get free access to are really the same sets that are in the main site, just repackaged into categories like "Euro" and "GirlPlay". There are a couple of other mystery bonus areas that include additional models, most of which are intermediate level ametuers. The site is constantly advertising other sites like Brazzers, Mofos, Wicked and Babes, all available for an additional and sometimes hefty fee. Very distracting and annoying.
They have a girl of the month theme with a series of photo and video shoots released throughout the month.
Overall, this site is well above average with a huge selection of images and videos. The girls are Mmostly mature, large breasted and in many cases enhanced a bit. The images are good but not too glam-ee and, from what I can tell, not overly touched up. I got in on a "Please come back" special rate. Absolutely, positively worth a visit at least one a year. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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- Tons and tons of content, they claim around 5467 video sets and thousands more image sets. There is plenty of stuff to download here, even ignoring some of the older content which has a lower resolution you won't be bored.
-Frequent updates with daily new content (2 videos and 3 image sets every day!) Each image set has zip archives and around 100 images. The videos come in different viewing options including clips or full length.
- Lots of good looking porn models, a lot of well known names (Lexi Belle, Sasha Rose, Chastity Lynn) as well as several new faces.
- The content I believe follows a Glamour approach with beautiful pictures and some good if rather softcore video sets. Great light, good make-up and some amazing outfits, lots of corsets and stockings. Overall a decent amount of variation.
- Navigation is easy, good search categories and it's easy to find content form one model or similar models. |
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- Despite the diverse models and outfits the action can feel a bit formulaic at times. This is a big network that tries to cater to the mainstream porn so if you have a specific fetish you might want to go somewhere else. Also don't expect the "hardcore" scenes to be truly hardcore as defined by eastern European anal sites. The site caters to a mostly glamour/ softcore vibe with some great lesbian scenes thrown in the mix. Overall the vast majority of the content and the best stuff is solo masturbation of good looking models.
- They have ads in the member area, nothing to intrusive but it might bother some.
- Some downloads were slow for me, but it might be a unique problem. For some reason I couldn't use my usual download manager with the site and had to use firefox's standard download option. |
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I'm not really that interested in softcore and solo masturbation videos so I avoided Twisty's for a long time. However they now have around 218 hardcore videos with about 5 new hardcore scenes added each month, combine that with some great looking models and the huge archive and I was sold. Now let's take a look at what I bought :)
First of all I would not recommend getting the trial unless you're really on the fence about joining. The pass only gets you access to the images and the videos are really with checking out before judging the site. There are some great scenes here with some very passionate girls. I have to say that the lesbian scenes here were some of the best I've seen almost anywhere.
In fact all the girls seem to really be into the scenes and there are very few awkward moments so common in solo scenes were the girl isn't interested.
What probably helps is that the vast majority of the girls here are American models who show up on other sites as well. These are girls who know what they're doing and are enjoying it. On the other hand this means that you shouldn't expect the kind of girls that show up for exploited college girls here.
For the most part the models look like glamour girls. Think Playboy but with a dirtier twist. The girls have professional make up, there are lots of big boobs and the general feeling of large porn-star network.
There's nothing bad with this, just be aware that this is not a niche site and while there are some fetishes present here most of them are older sets from 2006 or 2010 (there are only 24 domination or rough scenes here, about 20 scenes with older women and although they have around 300 anal scenes most of them are solo ass play. Also the last time they uploaded a scene with multiple guys was 2009)
That being said the site does offer a lot of value for the right person. The navigation and search options are pretty much flawless. The frequent updates, the huge archive the good looking girls it all combines to form a great deal.
Another nice touch is the effort Twisty's is putting in creating a community. They ask for feedback on models, you can comment on videos and photo-sets and they have a Treat of the month and the year, a sort of playboy playmate. They now also offer live shows once in a while, so overall good stuff that makes for a much nicer and unique membership experience.
While the majority of the action didn't really speak to me I still found dozens of scenes that I enjoyed and will have to join up again in the future. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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- Was for years my highest rated site. One of the internet's biggest and oldest sites.
- The updates continue to fill the site up, 3 photo sets, 2 videos a day for at least 8 years straight, 365 days a year.
- The last few years content has had HD video and the added high option in picture downloads that are around 3000 high end.
- You see a lot of models you've never seen on here, though they usually start popping up on other sites, in a recent trend though, I haven't seen as many new ones as Twistys used to have.
- Search engine is one of the better ones in porn. It still will recognize aliases and I think it's the only one that does that. Also has all the regular tags for searching.
- To me this is the biggest pro and I will further it in the bottom line, if you haven't been here in awhile or maybe even never, you are going to see tons of content you haven't seen.
- Download speed was very good also. |
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- A completely subjective con. I have had anywhere from 12-15 monthly memberships here, a 1 year one and four 3 month ones over the years. A bit of sameness has crept in for me.
- Maybe a word I've looked for before, I usually use it for music, but some of the content seems too polished, like it's overproduced. That could be the airbrushing which isn't near as bad as in the past.
- I think they could get more out of models than they do. Especially in solo scenes. It may be going back to being too polished, but it does seem that way. |
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Twistys has always been one of my top 5 favorite sites. I admit part of the reason I always liked it was the former webmaster Shap. You could email Shap with problems, questions and he would reply back to you in a day or two, if it was a problem, he would reply back usually in an hour or less. The selling of Twistys worried me because I knew that aspect was going to be gone.
My feeling now is that the new company running it is doing a good job. The content hasn't veered too far off the Twistys path and it's still sort of a harder glam site. My reduction in score is just because I don't feel like the site has improved any. It's possible that between my 1 year membership, in 2010, and now, my tastes have changed some. One thing I do know is that Twistys is now hurt by the retirement or lower activity of some models, especially Euro ones.
At one time, the Anetta Keys/Smrhova, Eve Angel, Stracy Stone, Angel Dark, Sandra Shine and the whole group that was going strong in 2006-2010, were a big selling point for me. All of those have either retired or just aren't very active, though there have been 4 new Eve photo sets this year and 2 new videos added.
This is my overall feeling with this visit to Twistys. I've seen it before. Nothing has really changed. Besides not having my usual favorite models, I haven't found many of the newer models that I really like or I should say that I really want to collect. That's not the site's fault though.
One thing I think is the site's fault is that they could vary the scenery more. Maybe push a fake different color wall in with paintings on it. I know, that's a sign of boredom, naked woman standing there and I'm complaining about the wall color. But that is the big con for me. I really feel like I've seen this content before though I know I haven't.
I really shouldn't even complain at all. They sent me a promo email that lowered the price to 1/3 of what it is if you join directly through the site.
The good and this is especially good for newcomers to Twistys or anyone who hasn't been on the site in a while. They have 1,095 photo sets per year, 730 videos per year and I have seen content as old as 2001. I can't say they updated that much in 2001, but I feel pretty safe in saying they have more content than a new member could go through in a month, maybe even 6 months. It's one of the very best sites for collectors of individual models since they usually have more than just a handful of photo sets and videos. They even added a new Georgia Jones video this week, who I haven't seen in what seems like a year or two. The numbers can be quite staggering even.
Eve Angel - 68 photo sets, 17 videos
Heather Vandeven - 24 photo sets, 30 videos
Anetta Keys - 75 photo sets, 14 videos
Those are my three favorites on Twistys. A few of the newer American models since they cover the world, not just a certain area.
Tori Black 17 photo sets, 14 videos
Tiffany Thompson 14 photo sets, 11 videos
Georgia Jones 39 photo sets, 25 videos
You will occasionally find models that only have 2-4 of each, but there are literally dozens that have 10 or more photo sets and 10 or more videos.
This is all hard to find fault in for a new(er) member, but for me, I felt like I was picking through trying to find one or two new sets of the models I collect.
It would be a very good place to start a porn collection though. The high or big resolution zip files of photo sets have been showing up for a couple of years now and those are around 3000 high end, with a few that I have downloaded going over 3000. Newer videos are HD and have multiple format downloads available. Older picture sets or small zips are 1280 high end, with older videos, I would estimate at least 90% being at least 640/720x480.
Their search engine has always been one of my favorite parts of the site since it is able to recognize aliases. A couple of examples, Eve Angel is known as Eva Shine on Twistys, searching Eve Angel will still bring her up even though she is listed differently on their site. Anetta Keys is listed as Aneta Smrhova, searching with either variation of her first and last name will still recognize her and bring her up.
One thing that saved the score from dropping a little more, Twistys is now doing a Live section where they have a girl or girls doing a live video, it had only been happening once a month, but the last few months hadn't had a new scene. They are showing a new live video scheduled for this month so hopefully they are going to start doing that again since it shows a very good effort to improve the site with something a little different. I'm going to use the +/- again, when I say for new members who like glam porn with masturbation, g/g, some b/g, add 5 points to the score. If you have been here many times before, you could remove 5 points from the score. It's still highly recommended. It's also a good site for those who are interested in the photo side of porn with a nice amount of videos too. |
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exotics4me wrote 2 reviews (10-21-08, 03-21-07) prior to this. Archived reviews no longer count toward score. |
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Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
- Frequent updates
- Well known talent
- High Resolution zip DL
- High Def video clips
- Price is reasonable |
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Older sets are lower resolution and used to be of high resolution. Not sure if they are doing this to save space on storage or just doing a Netflix type of thing where if you missed out then you missed out. Hope they one day make all pics high resolution. I don't like that Annette Dawn's site has lower resolution pics and used to have higher res pics back last year. I hope they fix that.
Price has since gone up a little. Beware of Pre-Checked Cross-Sells! Be sure to uncheck additional offers (if undesired) to other sites when inputting your credit card info. |
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Twistys had always been that one safe site for me when I needed some clean dirty pictorials. With a vast variety of girls to choose from and most with a multitude of sets and clips you'll spend hours on this site searching for that next babe to download. It's worth a try if you have the extra cash to spend. |
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