Twitter: There's a difference between hate and humour!

Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". 

So often, people take to twitter to bash celebrities as well as people they actually know, for the reward of retweets and favourites on hateful words they see as hilarious. Humour me-pun intended-but when did being rude and insensitive towards others become funny?  Sure you can make jokes online, but to say offensive things that may be targeted towards people is awful if you find it “funny”.  I see a huge issue in how people are capable of doing such heinous things. Then again, people are much more macho online, and use social media to say things they would probably never say in person. I don't believe this issue can go away on its own, but I believe that everyone can make this issue, less of an issue.  The people that tweet out the hateful comments look for support from others.  Without people favouriting, replying, and retweeting the mean tweets, those people wouldn't be recognized and therefore less able to spread their hate.  Laws about cyber bullying on twitter should be introduced that prohibits users to tweet words with any sort of negative nature.  Along with the 140-character limit, I think there should be some sort of detector that doesn't allow particular words to be used when typing tweets.  It's ridiculous to attack others online since those people wouldn't say it face to face.  Once you post something online, regardless if you delete it or not, it is there forever.  People need to think of the consequences they may face before posting online, as well as the people they may hurt or offend with their mean tweets.  If you have nothing nice to say, then don’t say it! Simple as that. :)