article_snippet: A couple of weeks back, after Chelsea’s fiery 1-0 win over Everton, Twitter’s support team took swift and decisive action over a series of deeply unpleasant tweets.
article_snippet: And at that point the Twitter users took it as the Twitter users invite to join the party .
article_snippet: There was worse, much worse, but publishing the depressing details, which would bring a family member of mine into the public domain, would be an invasion of privacy - and the accounts involved, along with many others that week, were suspended for violating Twitter’s rules.
article_snippet: This is the life of a football reporter in 2015, waking up to indiscriminate messages each morning in the same casual manner you check your phone for texts.
article_snippet: Unfortunately Twitter has become the elephant in the room, the one subject we are reluctant to discuss in depth because an admission that the medium can be psychologically taxing is perceived as a weakness.
article_snippet: Twitter can still be just as horrible and angry a place though .
article_snippet: Twitter trolls hiding behind the anonymity of a keyboard in a bedroom at these attacks parents’ house.
article_snippet: Twitter is a modern phenomenon, a bear pit for the football reporters who cross a very fine line when Twitter write about some of the most high-profile issues in the game.
article_snippet: Sadly The abuse also affects dialogue, with sensible tweets often lost in an avalanche of poison if you happen to write something even remotely controversial about a team, a player or manager.
article_snippet: Errors are seized upon, with reporters called to account in a way that was never possible until Jack Dorsey and Co dreamed up Twitter in 2006.
article_snippet: It is little wonder that Twitter’s chief executive Dick Costolo told Twitter’s’s staff, in a leaked email in mid-February, that it was time to clampdown on the pollution in this social forum.
article_snippet: In the days after Costolo’s memorandum was leaked to the media, Costolo began to take action on the users mentioned above, along with scores of others who were being abusive or harassing people.
article_snippet: This is an opportunity for Twitter to evolve, to make it clear that this remarkable concept is to be used in a way that is socially acceptable.
article_snippet: In September 2013 the Met Police admitted the Met Police were powerless at times to investigate and prosecute Twitter trolls for the Met Police hounding of various public figures.
article_snippet: Progress is slow, but Twitter has suspended accounts of those threatening physical violence and have emailed others to remind those threatening physical violence that a behavioural policy is in place.
highlights_snippet: Twitter users are quick to criticise reporters for Twitter users reaction to matches .
  