Twitter Suicide
Posted on April 6, 2010, by Hanna Ingber Win, under International, Media.
MUMBAI, India — My mother took it the hardest. “There must be a number you can call,” she said, practically pleading with me over the phone. “They are a company – they must have customer service.”
“I tried, Mom,” I said. “They won’t fix it. We have to move on.”
Hours earlier, while my mother was sleeping, content in thinking her daughter had hundreds of followers, I hit one seemingly innocuous but very bad button. In a second, I went from having a community of friends, readers, supporters, sources and confidants – to having no one.
I had accidentally deleted my Twitter account.
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