In this edition of "Twitter worst practices" a Florida radio host got fired after tweeting a $1,000 bounty for injuring a rival college-football player.
Dan Sileo is was a sports talk-radio host for Miami's WMEN. He once played college football for the Miami Hurricanes, which is a crucial fact in this story. The previously unbeaten Hurricanes got whipped this weekend by rival Florida State. During the game, at least one Florida State player mockingly made Miami's trademark "U" hand gesture.
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The disrespect severely rankled Sileo, who later posted this tweet (the "6 weeks" part references an assumed rematch between Florida State and Miami in the ACC championship game):

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Surprisingly enough, this wasn't Sileo's first Twitter gaffe. In January, he was suspended by a different station, WQAM in Miami, for posting sexist tweets about sportscaster Erin Andrews. Two months later, he was fired. That firing came almost exactly one year after yet another Florida station had terminated his contract for referring to NFL-draft picks as "monkeys."
He also posted this Twitter selfie in June, which was regrettable in its own right:
@Cypher30s right pic.twitter.com/UKEUlaoRs0
— Dan Sileo (@DanSileoShow) June 26, 2013
Sileo tweeted on Monday after his firing that fans had sent him death threats online, and offered a modest apology for his original tweet:
I understand my comment was OVER the TOP and 640 is right to protect there station...GREAT SUCCESS to them...But I felt the FSU PLAYER
— Dan Sileo (@DanSileoShow) November 4, 2013
@DanSileoShow was PUSHING the U sign in my schools face...VERY disappointing to know the University of Miami lead the charge in this!!
— Dan Sileo (@DanSileoShow) November 4, 2013
VERY SAD society we live in..when somebody ACTUALY thinks I would want another kid hurt..AWFUL....BUT..DEATH THREATS ARE REAL
— Dan Sileo (@DanSileoShow) November 4, 2013
i have reported all the DEATH THREATS to the POLICE and FBI....My face book and twitter are littered with wanting to hurt my daughter
— Dan Sileo (@DanSileoShow) November 4, 2013
@DanSileoShow My family and I are in hidding..PLEASE RESPECT our PRIVACEY....I have hired a PRIVATE COP and He is ARMED..THANK U..GO CANES
— Dan Sileo (@DanSileoShow) November 4, 2013
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