# Martin Shkreli's twitter account closed.

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [January 9, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688 "2017-01-09T01:02:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author: ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688/1 "2017-01-09T01:02:23Z")

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Not the most earth-shattering news, so I was going to post this in the mundane section, but I’m just too pissed with this inverted eel.

wow what a creepy fucking doodus:

> **[Martin Shkreli Was Just Suspended From Twitter](https://fortune.com/2017/01/08/martin-shkreli-suspended-twitter/)**
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> After he harassed a female journalist

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> The ex-CEO then changed his Twitter profile picture to what appears to be a Photoshopped image of him and Duca sitting on a couch together, the Daily News reports. He also posted a collage of photos of Duca, under text saying, “Til Death do Us Part.

hey - _classy!_

Hopefully facebook and any other of his social media accounts eventually go under also.

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### Author: ![CatandMouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@CatandMouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatandMouse)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688/2 "2017-01-09T01:19:20Z")

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I saw that he had been banned from Twitter. Good riddance to the miserable little twerp!

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### Author: ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688/3 "2017-01-09T01:19:21Z")

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That goes beyond creepy.

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### Author: ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688/4 "2017-01-09T02:00:39Z")

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This suspension is just temporary.

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#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688/5 "2017-01-09T02:26:28Z")

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> [@PastTense](#):
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> This suspension is just temporary.

dang - I stand corrected.

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### Author: ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688/6 "2017-01-09T05:36:11Z")

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He needs to be punched in the face, or kicked in the face, very hard, every day, for the rest of his life.

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### Author: ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688/7 "2017-01-09T05:42:02Z")

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Well he just proved he’s even more disgusting than I thought possible.

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### Author: ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688/8 "2017-01-09T05:46:38Z")

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> [@SteveG1](#):
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> He needs to be punched in the face, or kicked in the face, very hard, every day, for the rest of his life.

::madly compiling list, currently at charity #47,371 093::  
oh but come on now though, seriously - that winning, smirky, quirky, “what, me?”, lovable smile, almost as readily comforting as Billy Mays’s?

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### Author: ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688/9 "2017-01-09T05:58:06Z")

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> [@PastTense](#):
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> This suspension is just temporary.

The first one usually is. It’s not unlike here, except, I think they are closer to a 3 strikes instead of 2 strikes.

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### Author: ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688/10 "2017-01-09T06:03:59Z")

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Now, if we can just get Twitter to ban the other moron currently using it things will be sooooooo much better.

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### Author: ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688/11 "2017-01-09T06:40:06Z")

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> [@Morgenstern](#):
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> Now, if we can just get Twitter to ban the other moron currently using it things will be sooooooo much better.

Once that moron starts his new job, he’ll have the ability to send his own unblockable alerts directly to all our cell phones. Wish I were kidding.

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#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688/12 "2017-01-09T06:43:16Z")

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> [@Morgenstern](#):
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> Now, if we can just get Twitter to ban the other moron currently using it things will be sooooooo much better.

Or maybe Don can “reach out” to Shkreli with an ambassador position.

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### Author: ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-shkrelis-twitter-account-closed/776688/13 "2017-01-09T07:45:52Z")

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> [@SteveG1](#):
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> He needs to be punched in the face, or kicked in the face, very hard, every day, for the rest of his life.

I was going to say “tazed in the balls for a solid hour,” but I like your plan, too.
