I believe the article details a lot of examples where twitter had nothing to do with the 'crime' at all. Twitter is just where the echo chamber resides.
It also encourages piling-on. And, for unknown reasons, companies and organizations feel beholden to the Twitter mood.
We see this with technical support issues as well as tangential social issues: someone from the company was seen acting rude towards someone -Outrage! (As if the accuser never, ever engaged in such uncivil behavior, ever! And especially never become part of a Twitter mob to seek something as crass as revenge)
Sure I agree. I just meant you can be 'charged with a crime' in the context of TFA without even having a twitter account. Maybe I just misunderstood what the initial poster meant.
I believe the article details a lot of examples where Twitter had nothing to do with the 'crime' at all but public discussions on Twitter had a lot to do with creating the mob justice - and that is how Twitter undesirably "bleeds into life in real ways" as the parent post asserts.
People should be free to discuss various allegations on Twitter and demand various actions to be taken; but where it goes wrong is that it should not be acceptable for institutions to act/react/overreact on their employees solely based on these social media allegations and demands, actual due process should still be a thing.
