The players have to take the rough with the smooth on Twitter.

They get their egos massaged by having their thousands of followers hanging on every boring word they say....so they will have to accept that some of those followers will be 'broken Britain'

The funniest was Tomkins' reply to some girl that tweeted him earlier. Seems he's deleted it now though.

It pathetic but inevitable that Twitter (same as internet message boards) represents a cross-section of society, which inevitably means you are gonna get some morons/trolls. They do it simply for the reaction with no thought for the hurtful consequences. If you can believe it I got abuse from a random stranger about my special needs daughter on Twitter. While I agree that sending personal abuse to people is disgusting and wrong, people in the public eye should know that if they use something as open-access as Twitter then they are going to have to deal with the fakes and trolls as well as the nice, genuine people. Twitter isn't like Facebook, anyone can read your tweets and send tweets to you unless you set your account to private. If these players want to use Twitter but don't want to deal with the morons then maybe that's the course of action they should take.

(Can I just say before I get jumped on: I don't in any way, shape or form condone sending personal messages of abuse directly to players, celebrities or anyone else.)