In recent days we have come across a lot of horrible people on Twitter, passing on death threats, bullying and harassing of celebrities. Mainly Tom Hiddleston, one of the kindest persons around has faced impersonators pretending to be people he had met in the past attempting to meet up with him and more recently apparent death threats for something he wasn't even involved with.

Sure you might think it doesn't matter since it's at the expense of a "celebrity" but they are people too who can also feel hurt and upset by comments left by anonymous people. Sure you can say block them or get over it. But why should they?

If Twitter can verify celebrity accounts then why not find a system to verify regular users? Facebook's gotten pretty good at it. That way when things such as death threats have been made they can be held accountable for the things they do or say. It's not because it is a social media platform that they should be able to get away with it.

Even if it takes time, even if it means hiring additional people, I want to feel safe using the internet and Twitter in particular. And a block or report button doesn’t do the trick in my opinion. I have reported tweets in the past but no one ever got back to me. So it’s pretty pointless.

It has driven away other celebrities as well such as Matt Lucas who now has others running his account, Ricky Gervais who had to deal with intense bullying recently, Ellen Degeneres also on the receiving end of death threats and many more. This has GOT to stop.

We care about these celebrities because they mean something to us, so let us not have some rotten apples spoil it for all of us. I for one am grateful that twitter exists so we have a way to connect to these people but there should be a level of control and respect first and foremost.

Please sign this petition if you agree.



Thank you

Fabienne Payet