Why this UK public figure deleted 50K tweets in a day

The name Toby Young has been plastered all over Brits’ Twitter feeds this week after he was appointed the UK’s new universities regulator — a position created by the government to uphold free speech at third level, among other things.

But just days after his appointment, Young deleted a huge chunk of his digital footprint. All in the space of a day. 

We’re not talking about the deletion of the odd misjudged tweet posted during one’s early adulthood. 54-year-old Young deleted nearly 50 thousand tweets in a day in an effort to erase racist, misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ, and sexually explicit tweets, some of which date back to 2009.   Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Why this UK public figure deleted 50K tweets in a day