Why celebs leaving Twitter
Leslie Jones from SNL quit Twitter last year due to many trolls posting racist and sexist tweets. There was even a fake profile in her name which posted obscene tweets.
"I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart," Jones tweeted. "All this cause I did a movie. You can hate the movie but the [s---] I got today. Wrong."
"I'm not stupid to not know racism exists," Jones wrote. "And I know it will probably live on way after me. But we have to make people take responsibility for the hate they spew. We have to stand up to it."
She also called on Twitter to do something, to which the social media site responded, "This type of abusive behavior is not permitted on Twitter, and we've taken action on many of the accounts reported to us by both Leslie and others."
Ed Shereen is one of the celebs who recently quit twitter as he seemed to be upset about the mean things people wrote. According to The Sun he said, "I can't read it. I go on it and there's nothing but people saying mean things."
It seems like Twitter has been serving as a platform to publicly abuse and bash celebrities who create an account there hoping to connect with the fans. But in some cases the negative comments takes a toll on these poors famous people. Although Twitter strongly condemns these racist and sexist comments and even has taken action in some cases to deactivate fishy and abusive users, there are still large number of users who enjoy bullying and bashing not only celebs but anyone they dislike for that matter.
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