Shaun King began deleting all his tweets after his comment made about white men who liked shooting guns must have small penises was juxtaposed with prior pro-gun tweets he had made. His response to inquiries from Breitbart and the Blaze was unhinged.
Via The Blaze:
Milo Yiannopoulos, a reporter at Breitbart, wrote King asking for comment: “Why are you deleting your tweets? Is it because you were embarrassed about your past statements on firearms coming to light?”
The response Yiannopoulos received absolutely stunned him. He wrote on Twitter it was the “best email” he had ever received.
“I cannot overestimate how insane the email I’m about to share is,” he tweeted before publishing the email.
Here’s a transcript of a portion of the message Yiannopoulos received:
Can you confirm that you are mass-deleting tweets?
Tens of thousands of people all over the world deleted just 2-3 tweets a piece over the past few days.
Are you using an automated tool or is your “administrative team” achieving this feat manually?
It’s all manual. We gave out Shaun’s Twitter password to the volunteers and asked them to all do it by the end of the day today. They were from 150 countries combined.