Beware of the Twitter Troll

Patton Oswalt (The King of Queens) has been sending out a slew of false apology tweets which has led to some controversy. 

All of the false apology tweets began with how he had just "deleted his last tweet". One tweet read:

Previous Tweet very hurtful. Already deleted. @KimKardashian & @JoeBiden are national treasures. As are our Native American friends.

Some people began to think he was making racist remarks, rape related jokes, and anything else that offended them when he never truly did.  

The point of his tweets was to prove becoming outraged over anything is so common today over the internet. He created the false apologies to get a reaction from people and since nobody ever saw the "tweets he deleted" they became outraged at his apologies. 

He had done this once before last summer. His tweets when read together said nothing politically incorrect, but he strategically separated them into two tweets to see who would become angry (and who isn't reading everything)

 Whatever opinion you may feel about Patton's Tweets, he is just trolling you. He wants to prove all we do is cause a reaction to anything we read online. Be careful of who's really being offensive versus the harmless trolls on the web.