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by RajT88 1498 days ago
I don't know if you really "get" twitter until you've had a throw-away tweet from 7 years ago dredged up and used to try and destroy you.
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I auto-delete my tweets after three months so shrug
I guess that's one benefit of not having started earlier!
The best I've had is being suspended for a 7 year old "kill all boomers" tweet :(
Ha! I got that too!

I tweeted the classic joke "old people should be killed at birth", which made sense in context. Got a few likes in the moment. 4 months later, account suspended, had to delete the tweet to get it back.

I'm still puzzled by what happened.

How old were you when you posted it?
Would you mind if someone was suspended for tweeting “kill all black people”?
Humourless people like you are why we can't have nice things :( Talk about taking things out of context to the extreme!
I'm all for humor, but you shouldn't be hypocritical. Personally I wouldn't be offended by either if it was funny, but being offended only if it's against a group you like is not cool.