By the way, one of the pioneers of mass targeted abuse on Twitter was the founder of the site Milo writes for, Breitbart “News.” Andrew was notorious for this, frequently retweeting his critics so his thousands of followers would heap abuse on them.

Andrew used to do this to me frequently; I actually developed some scripts to quickly block large numbers of right wing flying monkeys because of Breitbart’s nasty little tactic. Now people like Milo and Adam Baldwin and other right wing hacks are carrying on the tradition.