"Your supporters are sending me death/rape threats." I believe that in many high attention cases, it's trolls on standby who are jumping in.
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Replying to @zeynep
I now believe that much of rain of "death/rape threats" within a political fight are a small number of outside troublemakers. For the lulz.
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Remember, it doesn't take that many troubled people--on a platform of millions--to create the appearance of avalanche of death/rape threats.
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So, Twitter can help, but not with real threats of injury/assault. It should make it much easier to block/mute a coordinated attack.
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Maybe have a button allowing people to mute all replies to a specific Tweet except replies by people they follow?
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