I suspect you’re right. The word kink is probably just on their adult word list. Years ago some friends who worked on Yahoo’s adult content management related similar challenges around sites that mentioned the spice cumin getting falsely flagged as pornography.
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Free advertising.
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Penistone Church FC, Cockfosters FC and Clitheroe FC probably trigger it too. There will be many more.
We have to include the non-league teams now, since Scunthorpe crashed out of the league in a spectacular manner last season.
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Twitter’s bots seem to have a lot of paranoia about this word. One day they’re gonna’ self destruct.
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Maybe it’s because they did that popular song about a man falling for a transgender woman and that makes the rightoids uncomfortable.
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If they’re slapping a warning on these tweets, I’m just left wondering who’ll be the next in line for this?
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We avoided that problem by only allowing three characters in the high score. Of course, that was a while ago. 
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That can’t be right, all the TERs tell me that transgender people didn’t exist in 1970.
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Oh man, I got to see Arthur a few years ago and that motherfucker still comes hard as hell and twice as fast.
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Pete Quaife won’t be joining anyone, anytime soon as, alas, he died in 2010.
Mick Avory, on the other hand, is alive and I’m sure the mutual hate between him and Dave Davies is also still very much alive.
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If I may add a scunthorpian remark: so, Rob is saying twitter tries to filter their stuff for kinky words as not to dry out of liquidity?
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Too bad the band weren’t René Magritte fans.
“Ceci n’est pas une pipe bomb” might have caused some puzzlement.
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