At the time, he had only a thousand or so followers and there was not yet a major outcry. As I said in an earlier comment: I can remember reading quite a fe

At the time, he had only a thousand or so followers and there was not yet a major outcry. As I said in an earlier comment: I can remember reading quite a few [of his tweets] and thinking "wow, this guy's gonna get called out one of these days". Guess it finally happened, and by someone with a big enough megaphone to really make it go viral. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6364769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6364769 edit: Especially since he had his professional title in his twitter bio.