| It's not very intuitive that only people you follow can message you. But after you've received some hate messages, it also sounds like the kind of thing that you'd learn pretty quickly. In other words if you're making up a story, it is the kind of detail that you'd not noticed you'd gotten wrong. But if you're actually harassed, it is the kind of thing that wouldn't keep happening to you for years. Seems like a good reason to conclude that the story is made up. As for home address discovery, that bothered me far less. If I had tracked someone down to 3 IPs, one of which was close, I'd go looking for evidence that there was a personal connection. One of the standard things that I would think of is to look through all received emails, and look for the IP address there. That would indeed track it down reasonably reliably to a specific household without any need for a court order. And if the person that I did this for didn't understand what I did, confused explanations about how it was done are only to be expected. |
The way Traynor describes it, after he eventually went fully private on Twitter, the harassment moved to other forums.