I am not sure how I feel about this. This person is a host on Australia's Next Top Model and is always in the paper/news etc. Anyway she started getting bullied on Twitter and her tactic was to retweet all the nasty tweets. It all came to a head earlier this week after a barrage of tweets where she posted that they had won and she was hospitalised. Hash tags included #diecharlotte and #gohangyourself
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/char...-1226463091491
CHARLOTTE Dawson has revealed it was the ferocity of last week's barrage of death threats that sent her into a spiral of depression and put her in hospital.
Speaking for the first time about the torrent of abuse she received on Twitter last Wednesday night, the 46-year-old TV presenter said: "I've never had death threats of this ferocity. I've never had a campaign of this ferocity.''
Hours before being admitted to hospital, Dawson had attended a Waterford Crystal party with friends in Darlinghurst where she happily mingled with guests.
But her mood slumped after she returned to her nearby apartment to discover a stream of abusive death threats on Twitter, including taunts to "stick your head in a toaster'' and "kill yourself''.
After spending hours fending off the insults, Dawson signed off with the disturbing message "you win x'' along with a picture of a hand holding pills at 2.07am.
Just after three, an ambulance arrived at her home and took her to St Vincent's Hospital.
Dawson said it was the relentless and vicious messages that finally broke her.
"It just triggered that feeling of helplessness when the trolls got to me,'' Dawson said in an interview to air on Channel 9's 60 Minutes tonight. "They got the better of me and they won.''
The social media war began after Dawson tracked down Monash University employee Tanya Heti after she posted a series of offensive tweets, including to "go hang yourself''.
Heti was suspended from her mentoring job when Dawson complained to the university, after which the stream of hate messages and threats began.
After spending two days under observation at St Vincent's Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre, where she was banned from engaging in social media, Dawson was yesterday released and is now staying with friends.
During her stay, it is understood doctors advised the "fragile'' Dawson not to take part in the paid 60 Minutes interview but that she insisted because she wanted to send a message to the trolls.
"If you're going to express those points of view, you should do it with a face and a name so you can be accountable,'' a defiant Dawson said.
Here is her twitter - http://twitter.com/MsCharlotteD