{"id":1166,"date":"2016-08-20T14:26:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T18:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gettheagency.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2016-08-20T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T18:26:51","slug":"how-busy-are-twitter-trolls-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gettheagency.com\/social-media\/how-busy-are-twitter-trolls-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"How Busy Are Twitter Trolls These Days?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><i>Very, very busy.<\/i><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter is having a hard time. The company is in desperate need of a swift kick in the pants to help it get moving and fix its troll problem. No, not the gremlin-looking, bejeweled-bellied, fun kind, but the ugly (at least internally), lives-under-a-bridge-kind that only comes out in the light of day to mess with people that he doesn\u2019t know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As actress Leslie Jones tweeted: \u201cI use [sic] to wonder why some celebs don\u2019t have Twitter accts now I know. You can\u2019t be nice and communicate with fans because people crazy.\u201d People are specifically \u201ccrazy\u201d towards women, Muslims, Jews, celebrities, journalists, ethnic minorities (really any person of any color that isn\u2019t white), people with disabilities, sexual orientation minorities. Do you get the picture? These hideous troll creatures are free to run amok in the dark, hostile corner of the internets that is Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So why is trolling so rampant on the social media platform? Because the company has done almost nothing to curb the online bullying in all the years it has existed. The risk of detection, apprehension or punishment is slim to none; and spikes drastically every time the Donald says something about women, immigrants, etc. Anti-Semitic tweets and abuse have been on the rise in general, and anti-Islamic tweets spike pretty much anytime anything happens in the world (bombings, attacks, Brexit, you name it). \u00a0Twitter is already hurting for users, and with cyberattacks and even threats against the physical integrity of current users by trolls, many people, especially celebrities, decide to close their account and live in peace with their nine other social media accounts. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be afraid, be very afraid: Twitter has already lost potential buyers for the platform, and the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/10\/26\/twitter-trolling-figures\/?utm_cid=hp-hh-sec#SsMR7R.SkOqV\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">numbers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> don\u2019t look good. One of those potential buyers was the Walt Disney Corporation, which, as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bloomberg<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reported, decided against the purchase because of the platform\u2019s \u201cbullying and hateful communication\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In July and August, Twitter unveiled a new block feature and other add-ons that were meant to give users more control over who they interact with and what they see on the platform. The abuse persists. Whatever Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey decides to do, he\u2019d better do it quickly because the troll infestation is causing serious, possibly irreparable damage to the company\u2019s user base, and therefore, its bottom line.<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very, very busy. Twitter is having a hard time. 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