#PRWin for Twitter CEO: 'We Suck at Dealing With Abuse'

Understatement of the century

A few days ago, Coca-Cola used its Super Bowl commercial to create awareness about cyberbullying — a cause we believe needs a big-time advocate like the beverage behemoth. Today, one of the primary platforms for trolls is in the news because of that very thing.

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo wrote in an internal memo, obtained by The Verge, about the negative effect trolls have on Twitter’s business. In short, they’re not helping:

“We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we’ve sucked at it for years.

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