Button wrote:Much less funny is the BBC report that Mrs E received 9.5% of all toxic tweets received by MPs (excluding MPs who received less than 1,000) between 15 March 2022 and 23 April, being exceeded by only 3 others.
Having re-read the article (
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63330885), I need to correct the above. The 'toxic percentage' is the proportion of the tweets received by each individual MP, Mrs E in this case, that were toxic - in other words, 9.5% of her "mailbag" was toxic. A toxic comment is one that is "rude, disrespectful or unreasonable" and "likely to make someone leave a conversation".
In terms of sheer numbers, Boris received the most toxic tweets, but given that he received so many tweets overall, the toxic ones were just 4% of his total. Backbenchers such as Mrs E received a smaller total, but with a higher toxic percentage - Mrs E's being 4th highest.