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Yep. I've got a small number of friends who are regularly harassed on Twitter (and elsewhere). One for their professional work on climate change. One for their professional work on racial history. And one for their transgender status while being professionally associated with a field that attracts an unusual number of alt-right people.

There are occasional repeat harassers. But the usual situation is "somebody posts about one of my friends to their circle and suddenly a gazillion hate messages arrive from a gazillion different people." The only option to prevent this would be "see zero dms or comments on your posts by people you haven't explicitly allowlisted," which works badly if communicating with an ever-shifting professional network is a part of your job.