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The internet will always have trolls and always had trolls. Twitter as a platform doesn't do anything differently than the old IIRCs or forums when it comes to

• masklinn 10y ago
  > The internet will always have trolls and always had trolls. Humanity has always lived on subsistence and never flown, until it fixed those things. > Twitter as a platform doesn't do anything differently than the old IIRCs or forums when it comes to this. The vast majority of forums I've used had responsive moderators and the ability to remove trolls (including correlating concurrent or sequential sockpuppets and reapplying sanctions on new accounts). IRC tends to be more spartan, but even there you could require authentication, autokick abusers and ban IPs. Of course both were intended as communities (of sorts) not trying to sell their growth, so removing a bunch of assholes wasn't considered an issue by anyone.
• cmdkeen 10y ago
  From TFA: "She deleted the tweet and posted the image to Instagram where she doesn't get abuse" So Instagram clearly does something differently, and from the perspective of at least one person, better.
• TorKlingberg 10y ago
  While not specific to Twitter, organized online harassment/bullying is a somewhat new phenomenon. Usenet and forums mostly had individual trolls.
• sp332 10y ago
  Those generally had moderators. And people in one channel didn't have to deal with trolls in another channel. Twitter rarely does anything about abusive users, and everyone is thrown into one conversation (there's no way to even block hashtags).