Yes there has to be freedom of speech, but if that freedom is abused then there have to be consequences.

Given that it should be very easy to archive a log of such a conversation, it ought to be very easy to produce the evidence. Now there is probably a very wide grey area between banter and criminality, but sometimes it is obvious that action needs to be taken.

I find it odd to think that anyone would listen to 50 abusive tweets an hour for 12 hours. I’d have sent the whole lot to a spool file and found something else to do while the pests create all the evidence to hand over to the authorities. Furthermore, anyone behaving in such a fashion in an environment so easily logged deserves to have a big fine, their account suspended and just possibly worse.

If you wouldn’t say it in public don’t tweet it!