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People are or can be assholes. If you enter a public forum you will find them and vice versa.

Twitter's under no obligation to police its users or protect the sensibilities of people who choose to broadcast themselves to the world on a two way medium. Too freaking bad.

I do appreciate good forum moderation. But I don't believe it's possible at Twitter's size.

Twitter's not a celebrity worship service, as much of its participants seem to act. It's a relatively open broadcast medium with an equally open feedback loop. That's one reason I'm not foolish enough to use it or any other "social media" besides small forums....

(I was as hard hit by her father's death as anyone, and am sorry for her apparent e-naivete.)