The best Twitter tech spats of 2015

December 24, 2015
Aaron Polmeer

By Kirsty Styles

Tinder rant

What modern Christmas would be complete without someone curating the year’s sum of human unkindness and misunderstanding into one handy reference list? Early this year, UK author Jon Ronson released his book ‘So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed,’ which delved deep into the world of online shaming, and where he took a particular look at the woman of#HasJustineLandedYet fame, Justine Sacco. Remember that 100,000-strong angry Twitter crowd of 2013? “We are about to watch this @JustineSacco bitch get fired. In REAL time. Before she even KNOWS she’s getting fired,” one gleeful onlooker said. She actually worked for IAC, owners of OKCupid, Tinder and Match, and it…

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