Twitter is a massive American website with over 330 million users. According to Twitter's rules, "Suicide or self-harm: You may not promote or encourage suicide or self-harm." It also says, "Sensitive media, including graphic violence and adult content: You may not post media that is excessively gory or share violent or adult content within live video or in profile or header images. Media depicting sexual violence and/or assault is also not permitted."

However, if you have a Twitter account and search for "#selfharm" "#sh" "#selfharmtwt" "#cutter" or many other hashtags that have become popular, you will find hundreds of thousands of graphic pictures as well as horrific videos of people blatantly harming themselves.

I am a former selfharmer and I am petitioning Twitter to include selfharm pictures and videos in their actively banned media policy. When a website allows users to post pictures and videos, the site profits from the traffic and encourages the behavior contained therein. You cannot stop selfharmers from feeling the urge to hurt themselves however you can take responsibility for the website's part in people seeking attention instead of getting treatment, doing worse damage than they would on their own, taking negative feedback and using it to harm themselves, and more. Reddit took responsibility for being a catalyst and exacerbating addictive, dangerous behavior. Now it is Twitter's turn.