![\"Twitter](\"http:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/twitterlogo.png\" "\\"Twitter\\"")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A 17 year old teenager, from Weymouth, has been arrested today after sending offensive tweets to Olympic diver Tom Daley<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n After finishing 4th yesterday in the synchronised diving event, Tom Daley (@TomDaley1994<\/a>)\u00a0received\u00a0a tweet from another user @Rileyy_69<\/a> sent a tweet to the Olympic diver saying “you let your dad down i hope you know that”. \u00a0Daley’s father died last year after a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n Tom Daley responded with a tweet on his own profile saying “After giving it my all…you get idiot’s sending me this…RT”.<\/p>\n Prior to the Olympics, Daley has spoken fondly of his father and stated that he “gave me all the inspiration that I’ve needed”.<\/p>\n The response on Twitter was of disgust towards the user known as Rileyy_69 with messages of support for Daley being sent from other Twitter users.<\/p>\n This is the latest of a number of arrests made by Police with regards to\u00a0harassment\u00a0and offensive messages on the social networking site, with a man previously being arrested for sending threats to Tory MP Louise Mensch.<\/p>\n After creating somewhat of a scandal on Twitter yesterday with his comments, Rileyy_69 attempted an apology to Daley tweeting “TomDaley1994 I’m sorry mate i just wanted you to win cause its the olympics I’m just annoyed we didn’t win I’m sorry tom accept my apology.” and “please i don’t want to be hated I’m just sorry you didn’t win i was rooting for you pal to do britain all proud just so upset.”<\/p>\n Several news sources are stating that Rileyy_69’s account has been suspended by the social networking site, however the account appears to be fully accessible now, albeit with the profile set to ‘private’ so only current followers can see his full profile.<\/p>\n This news story again highlights the fact that the Police are taking ‘social networking crime’ seriously and that statements,\u00a0harassment\u00a0and abuse using social networks can have serious consequences. \u00a0Many Internet users still believe that a lot of their activity online is anonymous but the latest string of social networking arrests proves how easy it can be for users to be traced by computing professionals if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 17 year old teenager, from Weymouth, has been arrested today after sending offensive tweets to Olympic diver Tom Daley yesterday. After finishing 4th yesterday in the synchronised diving event, Tom Daley (@TomDaley1994)\u00a0received\u00a0a tweet...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[928,934,931,924,923,929,930,925,78,920,74,932,933,927,926,864,922,921],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-daley","tag-diver","tag-london-2012","tag-malicious-tweet","tag-offensive-tweet","tag-olympics","tag-olympics-2012","tag-rileyy_69","tag-social-network","tag-social-network-harassment","tag-social-networking","tag-sport","tag-team-gb","tag-tom-daley","tag-tomdaley1994","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-abuse","tag-twitter-harassment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3nsfA-me","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpscomputing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}