I have a Twitter account - the second one I've had. I rarely tweeted and seldom signed in on the first one and it's about the same for the present one. The one I have now has a fake name, just in case I want to fire back at someone who tweets something offensive.
It's been a couple of years (so the exact details are a little hazy) but I followed a re-tweet by someone I was following and the woman - some minor celeb. who happened to be black - had posted a lot of (other) nasty racist comments, but the one that bothered me was her saying "White women prefer black men!" I usually just ignore things like that, but couldn't help myself and replied "That might be true, but if it is, it might also mean black men prefer white women." I got a BUNCH of replies to that, so many that I just canceled the account. Many were death threats or at the least, promising violence. Since I had used my "real name", I thought it for the best, even though I doubted anyone would actually follow through on them. If someone showed up at my door, angry over something I had posted on Twitter, then they might have had a rude awakening...or a quick death.
Anyway...I was reading a sports article the other day and a link was left to a specific tweet, but it had been deleted by the time I clicked on it. Here's the Twitter 404 message:
It's been a couple of years (so the exact details are a little hazy) but I followed a re-tweet by someone I was following and the woman - some minor celeb. who happened to be black - had posted a lot of (other) nasty racist comments, but the one that bothered me was her saying "White women prefer black men!" I usually just ignore things like that, but couldn't help myself and replied "That might be true, but if it is, it might also mean black men prefer white women." I got a BUNCH of replies to that, so many that I just canceled the account. Many were death threats or at the least, promising violence. Since I had used my "real name", I thought it for the best, even though I doubted anyone would actually follow through on them. If someone showed up at my door, angry over something I had posted on Twitter, then they might have had a rude awakening...or a quick death.
Anyway...I was reading a sports article the other day and a link was left to a specific tweet, but it had been deleted by the time I clicked on it. Here's the Twitter 404 message:
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