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I also copied his provost on the note. People are upset about this.

I want to be clear.

I had no intention whatsoever to get him in any kind of professional trouble but it is the case

at the New York Times and other institutions that people should be aware, manager should be aware of the way in which their people their professors or journalists

Interact with the rest of the world that's certainly the case is that the worst thing that you have ever been called on social media?

There's a bad history of being called,

oh man.

To insects that goes back to a lot of totalitarian regimes in the past.

That was the voice of New York Times columnist Brett Stevens,

who abruptly quit Twitter yesterday

because a random professor from George Washington University.

We all know who this guy is now, but at the time nobody knew who this guy was.

He tweeted this random professor tweeted out that Brett Stevens was a bed bug.

Now if you know anything about Twitter or if you don't know anything about Twitter you realize that there's two ways you, if you really want someone to see what you're saying, you mention their Twitter handle at Brett Stevens.

This professor didn't mention his Twitter handle, He just typed the guy's name in,

Brett Stevens. That means that Brett Stevens had a Google notification for his name.

And when he saw that this professor, when he got this Google alert for his name and he saw that this professor called him a bed bug

He lost it and he emailed the professor and he emailed the professor and he emailed the professor's provost.

Now I talked about this yesterday in the patrons only episode and and originally I wanted to leave it there because I want to give

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