Twitter suicide hoax intended to promote pop album, police say

[chantalzola]

A Twitter account based in the U.S. pretended to be a teen girl announcing her suicide online, prompting Toronto police to investigate

Comments

[shortsweetcynic]

this is so disgusting and so so so inappropriate. i'm lost for words.

[ntensity]

Wow that is ...ridiculous and disgusting. "It gets people to look at the Twitter feed" ? what an asshole...

Exploitation of teen suicide is not a promotional tool.

[lovedforaday]

did the record label come up with this or was this the idea of some stans? i really can't tell who are more desperate anymore.

[tabaqui]

What a fucking asshole.

[nesmith]

My 15 year old cousin committed suicide last week (that's the official story, since there was a note and he was alone in the house) and bullying might have been involved. This is pissing me off so bad I can't even think. I was suicidal in my teens (didn't succeed, thank goodness) and it's NEVER something to fucking joke about or use in such a disgusting way.

There's a special ring in Hell for folks like this.

[nesmith]

Thanks. I wish I could say I knew him well, but I only saw him a few times in his life (thanks to distance, both physical and otherwise) but he seemed like an awesome kid and this has just devastated his parents. The subject has always been one that's too close for me, but after this it just seems to carry even more weight than ever.

[elialshadowpine]

I'm so sorry about your cousin. *hugs offered* I have spent most of my life dealing with suicidal ideation (bipolar sucks). How ANYBODY could think that this was a good idea... I don't even want to know.