So if you can’t, or simply won’t, cut Twitter out of your life, the best protection you can provide yourself is the automatic deletion of your Twitter history. Meanwhile, large corporations tend to be run by online illiterates who care only about looking like they’re doing the right thing. Few people are professionally, financially, or mentally equipped to weather such a storm.
The rulebook for punishing people for tweets was codified during Gamergate and has since spread throughout the greater online culture war. That’s because finding yourself in hot water over an old tweet or a controversial one you fired off absentmindedly is practically a rite of passage on Twitter.
If you’re on Twitter, it’s a good idea to take precautions with your tweet history. However, some of us use Twitter for our livelihoods, both for networking purposes and because it remains an invaluable platform to grow and directly interface with your audience. The unfortunate reality of Twitter is that it is, at its most brutal, a performative minefield waiting to destroy either your career or your emotional well-being - quite often both if given enough time. One minute, you’re retweeting a funny meme account and enjoying some wholesome discussion about your current TV binge fixation, and the next, you’re being buried by a harassment campaign or finding your job in jeopardy over something dumb (or even harmless) you tweeted out in 2011.
Twitter is the social media world’s most reliable doubled-edged sword.
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