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And sometimes they look like this:

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"For not sportsing as well as you should have sportsed, you are hereby sentenced to death."

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They're all dookie, no matter how they look. You'd think that at this point the person on the receiving end of the threat could say, "Hey Twitter/Facebook/forum, this guy just said he wants me to die in a fire while my mother watches," and the Internet police would come arrest the offender, right? Wrong.

Twitter is the first to admit that it's next to impossible to ban specific users from their site. Even if your harasser tweets all the ways they're going to kill you and then posts your physical address, Twitter is going to need some time to assess the situation before banning your future murderer from their site. And no, you silly, you can't get the name of your harasser, because Twitter's privacy policy prevents them from giving it to you. So good luck when you go to the police with those anonymous threats! Unless, on the other hand, you get a death threat and you actually work for Twitter, in which case those accounts will get shut down in hours, not days.