Why is Twitter promoting rape tweets?

Her writing it comes across as "wow, I can't believe I just heard that", to me. She quotes it with no indication she was agreeing, but as something interesting, shocked someone would say that. (Probably because it is exactly NOT something people would generally say.)

I understand if you think they should filter certain words from being promoted, there's a conversion to be had there, but how could you possibly think she was advocating rape in any way?

Someone needs to up the minimum emotional age required to use twitter, that's all.

The issue isnt just the tweet itself but the fact it was promoted.

That they don't have a blacklist of words for this is beyond me...

This would be a PR nightmare for Twitter if it got out into mainstream media … and rightly so.

I dont want to start a nightmare - thats why I asked Sara first if it was an accident... but no response. Maybe I should dig for the initial tweet.

I can't actually find the tweet in her stream anywhere (date in your screenshot is 15 March, looked around that date on both sides). Can you please post the permalink to the tweet here?

The tweet has apparently been deleted but updated the post with contexutal responses...

From a Twitter product manager...