‘I was receiving 1400 tweets an hour, including death threats’
Dr Tanya Selak became the victim of a social media pile-on after she posted on Twitter about mask wearing
Last month, Dr Tanya Selak became a trending topic on Twitter.
This, as many people know, can be a good thing — a signal that what you have to say is of interest. And sometimes it can be a bad thing.
For Dr Selak, whose original post carried the innocuous title “I’m a vaccinated anaesthetist and this is how I shop for my family”, it was very bad.
Among the 1400 tweets an hour she subsequently received were personal abuse and death threats.
