Twitter's Plea To 'Be Sweet When You Tweet' Quickly Flies Off The Rails
Twitter made a simple request on Wednesday, but many users of the social network were in no mood to play along.
The exchange started innocently enough when the company sent the following message:
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Be sweet
when you Tweet
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| |— Twitter (@Twitter) October 17, 2018
But given Twitter’s ongoing problems dealing with hate speech and threats, many users called them out:
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Ban nazis
you dumbfucks
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| |— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) October 17, 2018
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Someone
threatened my life
on your website
and you did nothing
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| |— Geraldine (@everywhereist) October 18, 2018
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Take reports of
coordinated attacks
on journos seriously
esp when evidence
is provided
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| |— Alheli Picazo (@a_picazo) October 17, 2018
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You locked my disabled
cat's account but won't
ban Nazis.
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| |— Dr Elizabeth Báthory 🧛♀️ (@EKSwitaj) October 18, 2018
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Give some thoughts
to banning bots
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| |— Powerful Mel Ankoly 🦈 (@Mel_Ankoly) October 18, 2018
Others used the post as an opportunity to crack some jokes:
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PLEASE SHUT DOWN
TWITTER AT 10:30PM
SO PEOPLE
CAN SLEEP
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| |— Rob Manuel (@robmanuel) October 17, 2018
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What about the droid
attack on the wookies?
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| |— Jar Jar binks (@darthjarjarSith) October 17, 2018
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broccoli
stinks
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| |— Driekus Vierkant (@driekusvierkant) October 18, 2018
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Taco Bell
are NOT real Tacos
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| |— 𝙳𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛.𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚋𝚒𝚝 (@iGer) October 18, 2018
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Covfefe
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| |— Richard Wilkinson (@mrrwilkinson) October 17, 2018
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EAT
MORE
VEGETABLES
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| |— CSPI (@CSPI) October 17, 2018
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No
Thanks
I'm good
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| |— Dani (@Dani_Potter56) October 18, 2018
|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
Cthulhu will
devour us all
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| | https://t.co/1SqgX5UPgr— Cthulhu for America (@cthulhu4america) October 18, 2018
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