Twitter's UK division has just published a blog post that seems to be a response to the massive public outcry by some users in the country over abusive treatment that one Twitter user sustained last week, for her role in getting the image of British literary legend Jane Austen put on the £10 note. Oddly, Twitter's blog post, titled "We hear you," doesn't directly acknowledge the massive flood of abusive tweets threatening rape and physical harm that were sent last week to feminist journalist Caroline Criado-Perez, in response to her helping to create the new £10 bill and her grassroots campaign to put more women figures on British currency. Instead, the Twitter UK post acknowledges the problem of abusive tweets more generally. "We are...
Source: The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/29/4569230/twitter-uk-hears-user-complaints-in-wake-of-rape-threats
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