• The Guardian, Sunday, August 4, 2013 11:34 AM

The historian Mary Beard has become the latest woman to receive a tweeted bomb threat, sent on the eve of a boycott by many users of Twitter in protest at the site's slow response to dealing with violent and obscene threats. Although many users stayed off the site, the hashtags #Twittersilence and #connectwithrespect were trending, with many comments like David Howell's: "Time spent enjoying @wmarybeard on twitter is time well spend. Time saved by ignoring idiots is time well saved," and others pointing out that both women and men have been the victims of vitriolic abuse.

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