>"We are all familiar with stories of people who have said or written something and then faced a terrible online backlash," she said. What proportion of these

>"We are all familiar with stories of people who have said or written something and then faced a terrible online backlash," she said. What proportion of these came out of Twitter? It seems to me at least that most of the abusive brigading comes from there. There seems to be something about how Twitter implements their "following" concept that creates arbitrary and pointless groups. Twitter is a bunch of virtual gangs fighting each other and any other discernible targets.