Twitter made a simple request on Wednesday, but many users of the social network were in no mood to play along.
The exchange started innocently enough when the company sent the following message:
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— Twitter (@Twitter) October 17, 2018
Be sweet
when you Tweet
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But given Twitter’s ongoing problems dealing with hate speech and threats, many users called them out:
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— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) October 17, 2018
Ban nazis
you dumbfucks
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— Geraldine (@everywhereist) October 18, 2018
Someone
threatened my life
on your website
and you did nothing
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— Alheli Picazo (@a_picazo) October 17, 2018
Take reports of
coordinated attacks
on journos seriously
esp when evidence
is provided
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— Dr Elizabeth Báthory 🧛♀️ (@EKSwitaj) October 18, 2018
You locked my disabled
cat's account but won't
ban Nazis.
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— Powerful Mel Ankoly 🦈 (@Mel_Ankoly) October 18, 2018
Give some thoughts
to banning bots
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Others used the post as an opportunity to crack some jokes:
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— Rob Manuel (@robmanuel) October 17, 2018
PLEASE SHUT DOWN
TWITTER AT 10:30PM
SO PEOPLE
CAN SLEEP
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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
— Jar Jar binks (@darthjarjarSith) October 17, 2018
What about the droid
attack on the wookies?
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— Driekus Vierkant (@driekusvierkant) October 18, 2018
broccoli
stinks
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— 𝙳𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛.𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚋𝚒𝚝 (@iGer) October 18, 2018
Taco Bell
are NOT real Tacos
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— Richard Wilkinson (@mrrwilkinson) October 17, 2018
Covfefe
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— CSPI (@CSPI) October 17, 2018
EAT
MORE
VEGETABLES
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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
— Dani (@Dani_Potter56) October 18, 2018
No
Thanks
I'm good
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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
— Cthulhu for America (@cthulhu4america) October 18, 2018
Cthulhu will
devour us all
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