"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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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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We want Twitter to do more. Unfortunately in the rare case the threat is real, Twitter can't do much. Suspending accounts won't stop people.
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A) Unpaid trolls seem new entries to Twitter in a wave now and again triggered by new Twitter attention.
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B) Paid trolls stand around waiting to be hired like jobbers at the bus stop.
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...and both seem to be shrinking and fading, since they are useless and add nothing, only subractive.
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I'm guessing you saw the 4chan screencaps of /pol/ Trumpers re: the Breunig debacle?
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@bonecamaro Yes, but that's not all. A lot of people seem to just jump in when they see an online fight. They range from troubled to troll. - Show replies
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yup. Check out this forum thread on http://Cracked.com for even more inforamtion about that: http://forums.cracked.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=86728 …
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Yep, that's one of the playbooks.
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