“ Do n’t feed the troll ” used to be an net saying , but now it ’s a clientele scheme . Twitter lose bids from two possible acquirers because of the land site ’s reputation for permit bullying , trolling , racism , sexism and other forms of lewd communicating , according to aBloomberg report .

The Walt Disney Co. , which wasrumored to be planning to buythe troupe in former September , was upset Twitter would tarnish its wholesome , kinsperson - friendly image .

Meanwhile , CNBC reported that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was also turn off by Twitter ’s inability to fix its bullying job . “ What ’s happen is , a lot of the bidders are calculate at people with lots of followers and see the hate , ” said CNBC ’s Jim Cramer on arecent broadcast .

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The statements on Twitter ’s reputation are a Brobdingnagian puff to the troupe . Speculation that Twitter would attempt to sell itself started a few months ago following a serial publication of disappointinglypoor earnings composition , which indicated the company was make trouble adding new users . In recent September , the Walt Disney Co. appeared to bemost probable to acquireTwitter , specially because Centennial State - laminitis Jack Dorsey is on the board of Disney . The hearsay was Disney was interested in using Twitter as an online video dispersion platform , or as a means for the company to make the20 million cordcutter householdsthat do n’t have a cable or artificial satellite subscription .

But it ’s over now , no one wants to ,   and Twitter has no one to give thanks but its anon. round . The societal medium site has had a long - running trouble dealing with trolls , but this year it really boiled over . In July , the Breitbart blogger Milo Yiannopoulos ( @nero on Twitter ) waspermanently bannedfor prompt a campaign of racist harassment against Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones . In response , Dorsey said , “ No one deserves to be the target of abuse on Twitter … We have n’t been dear enough at ensuring that ’s the lawsuit , and we need to do well . ” obviously , it was n’t good enough .

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