I made an account called @norareedprivate, locked it, and told people who wanted to talk to me on private to follow it.
About a month ago, someone tipped GamerGate’s subreddit off that I was running an anonymous account about one of their pet issues. (I make a good target for these people– I’m non-binary, and I talk about my mental and physical health issues.)
As a result, I ended up targeted by a hate forum that doxxed my family and me; they’ve been aggressively monitoring everything I do online, sending me creepy anonymous messages, and eventually they decided to start going after everyone who talked to me on Twitter and trying to dox them too.
I went private on Twitter sometimes to make it a bit harder for them to go after me, and every time I did that, they kept obsessively keeping track of how many tweets I’d posted. Which gave me an idea.
I made an account called norareedprivate, locked it, and told people who wanted to talk to me on private to follow it.
The hate group targeting me, predictably, LOST THEIR SHIT ABOUT IT:
They kept posting screenshots of everyone who’d @’d it (I’d told my friends to pretend to interact with it if they wanted to).
Despite their spending their time obsessively refreshing a private Twitter account to watch the numbers go up, they didn’t notice that the account was posting every 10 minutes.
