Demi Moore Nia Vardalos Twitter Accounts Suicide Help

Actresses Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos were a part of an online chain of Twitter posts that led Florida authorities to intervene in an 18-year-old man’s threat of suicide.
Moore’s Twitter account, @mrskutcher, was among those responding to tweets from a young man threatening to hang himself in his front yard in Casselberry, north of Orlando. Vardalos’ Twitter feed included a message that she had called a suicide hotline and been connected to Florida police. “I gave his name + city. They went to home, helped him,” one tweet read.

The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said authorities received two calls around 2:30 a.m., one from California and one from Vancouver, British Columbia. Both callers reported the suicide threat on Twitter. There was no record of the callers’ names, Lt. Sonia Pisano said. Deputies went to a home and took the man to a hospital, Pisano said.

The teen’s mother told the deputy responding that her son, “was very emotional and diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder,” according to a report released Friday by the sheriff’s office. Her son was sitting at his computer desk crying when he told the officer he “did not know what to do with himself without help” and admitted to posting the tweet. Authorities then placed the man in protective custody.
Moore’s Twitter account, which has more than 2.5 million followers, was involved in a similar case last April. A California woman messaged that she was going to kill herself, which resulted in San Jose police taking the woman to a hospital for “psychiatric evaluation” after someone called about a tweet sent to Moore threatening suicide.
Twitter is a social networking site that has become popular among celebrities. It enables its user to send and read messages known as “tweets.” Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as “followers.”