I decided to go on CNN.com and research social media and I came across this article that sparked my attention. I use twitter quit frequently as do many people around the world. In my opinion twitter should be used to communicate with friends or promote onesself, especially if you are a celebrity of some kind. Unfortunetly, twitter has been used to insult people on a regular basis. This is taking insulting to a whole different level.
A feminist, Caroline Criado-Perez, from England protested that woman should be displayed on British banknotes and as a result, there were about "50 sexually-abusive tweets per hour." Police were able to locate this man and he was arrested in Manchester, England. This was not taken lightly by people and especially by Twitter UK's General Manager Tony Wang, who stated "the social-networking company takes online abuse very seriously, offering to suspend accounts, and called on people to report any "violation of Twitter rules."
UK Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper wrote a letter to Wang stating, "Despite the scale and seriousness of these threats, the official response from Twitter continues to be extremely weak -- simply directing Caroline away from Twitter towards the police, and, belatedly, directing users to abuse-reporting forms on Twitter."
Although, twitter has the report tweet button once something is on the internet and seen by millions of people there is no erasing it from people's minds or preventing other tabloid sites from uploading it onto their sites. I feel that there should be a some kind of blocker that actually is able to decode very offensive tweets preventing them from even being allowed on twitter. The fact that this man was allowed to openly tweet such offensive things to a woman who was simply protesting in what she believed in is appalling. People that make offensive tweets should be banned from twitter as well as any social media outlet because what is stopping them from making offensive facebook posts as well.