[aikah]

> My view is that Twitter has a big problem with harassment. I want to know what Twitter plans to do about it.

I don't know if Twitter does that,but they could have a function so that people only receive tweets from people they follow at first place,while keeping their tweet public.

Anyway, people take twitter way too seriously. It's the internet, anonymous people are going to be mean.

[wpietri]

You may have not noticed yet, but it no longer 1996, where "the Internet" is some weird thing that has little relation to mainstream society. Many, many people cannot just say, "Well gosh, this Internet thing is mean, I will quit it." Their participation is professionally necessary.

Twitter is trying to provide a major global platform for conversation. In doing so, they have also accidentally created a smashing tool for organizing and committing harassment and abuse. If they really want to play in the big leagues, they are going to have to solve that.

[aikah]

Internet opinion hardly matters in most cases.People should be paying too much attention on internet drama. Twitter included. If you don't like that,nobody's forcing anyone to use Twitter.

[wpietri]

It's always handy when replies give no sign of having read my comment, let alone thought it through. It saves me the time of writing a real response.

[ssully]

I have had some harsh stuff said to me on the internet, but it doesn't compare to the things high profile twitter users get said at them. It's really easy to dismiss the severity of something when you aren't on the receiving end.